tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34769468300555216442018-05-28T22:35:31.210-07:00PICTURES FROM HISTORY: Rare Images Of War, History , WW2, Nazi GermanyOriginal Source Of Rare WW2 ImagesEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comBlogger244125HistoryInPicturesRareUnseenPicturesBeTherehttps://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-66037586986328110042015-06-28T22:55:00.002-07:002016-09-11T23:00:55.326-07:00APOCALYPSE NOW: Best War Movie Ever Made<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04;">This classic by Francis Ford Coppola is inarguably the best war film ever put into celluloid. And definitely the best Vietnam War film. It has that quality which all good war flicks have: Timelessness. It was made decades ago but it appeals to the present generation as it did to the earlier generation.</span></h2><div><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div><div>The most appealing part is it shows war as it is. Ugly. Inhuman. Robert Duvall talks of liking the smell of napalm in the morning as the forest burns in the background after a napalm is dropped by American warplanes. He epitomises the then prevailing American thinking that the Vietcong could be hammered into submission.</div><div><br /></div><div>Martin Sheen mirrors the other America. Sceptical of the Vietnam War, and watches bemused at what is happening. But patriotism stops him from disobeying orders or deserting.</div><div><br /></div><div>Marlon Brando is a manifestation of that part of America that has gone mad in Vietnam. Something like the character portrayed by Tom Berenger in "<a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.in/2010/02/great-war-movies-platoon.html" target="_blank">Platoon</a>".</div><div><br /></div><div>The dance show in the midst of fighting areas in Vietnam by show girls gives the message that America was totally out of its depth in Vietnam. The expression on Martin Sheen's expressive face says it all.</div><div><br /></div><div>Words cannot begin to describe the film. It can only be seen to be believed.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a2MqQrL2hnM/VZDca6j7LPI/AAAAAAAAMEI/Ch2gK5c9BAU/s1600/Apocalypse-Now-best-war-movies-of-all-times.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Robert Duvall Coppola's classic Apocalypse Now Best war film" border="0" height="324" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a2MqQrL2hnM/VZDca6j7LPI/AAAAAAAAMEI/Ch2gK5c9BAU/s640/Apocalypse-Now-best-war-movies-of-all-times.jpg" title="Robert Duvall in Coppola's classic Apocalypse Now Best war film" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IkrhkUeDCdQ" width="420"></iframe></div><div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009GXTG0C?creativeASIN=B009GXTG0C&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=A5QF7XCXSL7M3GOH&amp;ref_=as_sl_pc_tf_til&amp;tag=incrwarimag-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img alt=" Best War Movie Of All Times: APOCALYPSE NOW" border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3lsQ1SvU7PM/VZDf86W49SI/AAAAAAAAMEU/vgSCDWaE9ZE/s1600/apocalypse-now-best-war-movie.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009GXTG0C?creativeASIN=B009GXTG0C&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=A5QF7XCXSL7M3GOH&amp;ref_=as_sl_pc_tf_til&amp;tag=incrwarimag-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">APOCALYPSE NOW</a>&nbsp;- BLU-RAY</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0045INOD8?creativeASIN=B0045INOD8&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=WSXEMBTIJYDJ2PFU&amp;ref_=as_sl_pc_tf_til&amp;tag=incrwarimag-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AMAZON RENT A VIDEO</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i>RELATED</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b><a href="http://incredibleimages4u.blogspot.in/p/great-war-movies.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Greatest War Movies</a></b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.in/p/incredible.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Best War Movies</a></b></i></div></div></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-3464109459602086462014-09-29T19:13:00.002-07:002016-09-11T23:00:55.162-07:00Some Rare Images Of Waffen SS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SybZfQLF-w8/VCoQ_iNm68I/AAAAAAAAL58/00jUwBPLd5A/s1600/waffen-ss-kurt-meyer-1943.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS Kurt Meyer Knight's cross Hermann Weiser" border="0" height="454" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SybZfQLF-w8/VCoQ_iNm68I/AAAAAAAAL58/00jUwBPLd5A/s1600/waffen-ss-kurt-meyer-1943.jpg" title="Kurt Meyer of Waffen SS awards Knight's cross to Hermann Weiser" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Waffen SS Officer Kurt Meyer awards a Knight's Cross to Hermann Weiser at Kharkov, 1943. On the right is the Chief Medical Officer Hermann Bezuden of the Adolf Hitler Division<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lWztHA4Aoug/VCoTEec-iQI/AAAAAAAAL6E/VuJTyymh2gQ/s1600/waffen-ss-joachim-peiper-1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Joachim Peiper Austria Waffen SS 1945" border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lWztHA4Aoug/VCoTEec-iQI/AAAAAAAAL6E/VuJTyymh2gQ/s1600/waffen-ss-joachim-peiper-1945.jpg" title="Waffen SS Joachim Peiper in Austria April 1945" width="458" /></a></div>Joachim Peiper (1915-1976) in Austria, April 1945<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E_uXmvJjFpk/VCoURtOu9XI/AAAAAAAAL6M/yprb2ORnKuA/s1600/waffen-ss-eastern-front-1941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS soldier Eastern Front WW2 1941" border="0" height="460" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E_uXmvJjFpk/VCoURtOu9XI/AAAAAAAAL6M/yprb2ORnKuA/s1600/waffen-ss-eastern-front-1941.jpg" title="Waffen SS takes aim in 1941 on the Eastern Front" width="640" /></a></div>A Waffen SS soldier takes aim in 1941 &nbsp;on the Eastern Front<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tzsm-EGPRTA/VCoVT9BMa7I/AAAAAAAAL6U/YB485Pc86tA/s1600/Waffen-ss-eastern-front-1941-mauser-98k-rifle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="408" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tzsm-EGPRTA/VCoVT9BMa7I/AAAAAAAAL6U/YB485Pc86tA/s1600/Waffen-ss-eastern-front-1941-mauser-98k-rifle.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>A Waffen SS man in action in 1941 on the eastern front<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f6BaIyH4x4c/VCoXAwEOAHI/AAAAAAAAL6c/NvT0n0WsjyQ/s1600/waffen-ss-viking-norwegian-bikers-1941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS Viking Division soldier 1941 Eastern Front" border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f6BaIyH4x4c/VCoXAwEOAHI/AAAAAAAAL6c/NvT0n0WsjyQ/s1600/waffen-ss-viking-norwegian-bikers-1941.jpg" title="Waffen SS Viking Division soldier in 1941 on the Eastern front" width="552" /></a></div>Norwegian motor cycle riders from the Waffen SS 'Viking' Division in 1941 on the eastern front<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K8pRF_6L284/VCoYwZ5RUWI/AAAAAAAAL6k/SPonJsTe980/s1600/waffen-ss-eastern-front-kalitka-1941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS soldiers MG 34 machine gun Katika 1941 Eastern Front" border="0" height="370" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K8pRF_6L284/VCoYwZ5RUWI/AAAAAAAAL6k/SPonJsTe980/s1600/waffen-ss-eastern-front-kalitka-1941.jpg" title="Waffen SS soldiers with MG 34 machine gun at Katika in 1941" width="640" /></a></div>Waffen SS soldiers armed with MG 34 machine gun and 50 mm mortar move in Kalitka on the eastern front in 1941<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-URFE6s2UA3c/VCobZoj-MwI/AAAAAAAAL6s/ernRpDt4jtY/s1600/wAFFEN-SS-lANDSTORM-nEDERLAND.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS soldiers Landstorm Nederland Division" border="0" height="492" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-URFE6s2UA3c/VCobZoj-MwI/AAAAAAAAL6s/ernRpDt4jtY/s1600/wAFFEN-SS-lANDSTORM-nEDERLAND.jpg" title="Waffen SS soldiers from Landstorm Nederland Division" width="640" /></a></div>Men from the Landstorm Nederland Division<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-osutKDaq10c/VCocbZfV41I/AAAAAAAAL60/g40ZdlC1adE/s1600/red-army-soldiers-surrender-das-reich-waffen-ss-august-25-1941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Red Army soldiers surrender Das Reich division Waffen SS August 25 1941" border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-osutKDaq10c/VCocbZfV41I/AAAAAAAAL60/g40ZdlC1adE/s1600/red-army-soldiers-surrender-das-reich-waffen-ss-august-25-1941.jpg" title="Red army soldiers surrender to Waffen SS Das Reich Division on August 25, 1941" width="514" /></a></div>Some Red Army soldiers surrender to men from the Das Reich SS Division on August 25, 1941on the eastern front.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pXCWwVdsvGY/VCodfDTdoxI/AAAAAAAAL68/cb6KBurodZw/s1600/ss-regiment-westland-1941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffens SS Dutch Westland regiment Munich 1941" border="0" height="420" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pXCWwVdsvGY/VCodfDTdoxI/AAAAAAAAL68/cb6KBurodZw/s1600/ss-regiment-westland-1941.jpg" title="Waffen SS soldiers from Dutch Westland regiment in a Munich 1941" width="640" /></a></div>Soldiers from the Dutch "Westland" SS regiment on a Munich street in 1941 with a German nurse and child<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L52NNfMMyXg/VCoggpdurPI/AAAAAAAAL7E/4Jng1i1D8N4/s1600/waffen%2Bss-%2Bdivision-Nord-mountain-ranger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mountain ranger waffen SS Nord division kola peninsula 1941" border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L52NNfMMyXg/VCoggpdurPI/AAAAAAAAL7E/4Jng1i1D8N4/s1600/waffen%2Bss-%2Bdivision-Nord-mountain-ranger.jpg" title="Mountain ranger from Waffen SS Nord Division in Kola in 1941" width="516" /></a></div>A mountain ranger from the SS Division "Nord" in the Kola peninsula in 1941<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HvAi7umMsng/VCoi7xpk3AI/AAAAAAAAL7M/LuxrCunOmfM/s1600/new-recruits-waffen-ss-nederland-division.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Recruiting center Waffen SS Nederland land division hague 1941" border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HvAi7umMsng/VCoi7xpk3AI/AAAAAAAAL7M/LuxrCunOmfM/s1600/new-recruits-waffen-ss-nederland-division.jpg" title="recruiting center at the Hague for Waffen SS Nederland division 1941" width="426" /></a></div>New recruits for the Waffen SS Division 'Nederland' at the Hague August 7, 1941.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORbUHJFUwYk/VCokp0YlmvI/AAAAAAAAL7U/DFPg6Ez9zQw/s1600/american-pow-ardennes-1944-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS Leibstandarte adolf hitler division Josef Diefenthal american pow ardennes december 16 1944" border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORbUHJFUwYk/VCokp0YlmvI/AAAAAAAAL7U/DFPg6Ez9zQw/s1600/american-pow-ardennes-1944-001.jpg" title="Waffen SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division Josef Diefenthal look at American POW December 16 1944" width="468" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Officers of the 1st SS Division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler" Sturmbannführer Josef Diefenthal and Sturmbannführer Gustav Knittel look at the prisoners, 3rd Battalion, 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division of the American in a street at the Belgian town of Stoumont. Ardennes, December 16, 1944.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UwA4E3bPnFc/VCol1TuxJbI/AAAAAAAAL7c/c1MwW8791rU/s1600/american-pow-waffen-ss-1944.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="american prisoners pow ww2 1944 stoumont belgium" border="0" height="450" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UwA4E3bPnFc/VCol1TuxJbI/AAAAAAAAL7c/c1MwW8791rU/s1600/american-pow-waffen-ss-1944.jpg" title="american pow at staumont belgium in 1944" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Captured American soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the 119th Infantry Regiment. In 1944 at Stoumont, Belgium</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uO2Xuc1J9XY/VCot3s9JmAI/AAAAAAAAL7o/uMQDRgVn_hE/s1600/waffen-ss-soldiers-eastern-front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="waffen ss soldiers eastern front ww2 " border="0" height="388" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uO2Xuc1J9XY/VCot3s9JmAI/AAAAAAAAL7o/uMQDRgVn_hE/s1600/waffen-ss-soldiers-eastern-front.jpg" title="waffen ss soldiers clamber over a fence on the eastern front" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Two Waffen SS soldiers clamber over a wire fence on the eastern front</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wxnT8fi7I4Q/VCovC5F8l_I/AAAAAAAAL7w/NhuxeAEH8JA/s1600/Waffen-ss-das-reich-soviet-village-1941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS das reich division Sd.Kfz 10 half track 1941 eastern front ww2" border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wxnT8fi7I4Q/VCovC5F8l_I/AAAAAAAAL7w/NhuxeAEH8JA/s1600/Waffen-ss-das-reich-soviet-village-1941.jpg" title="Waffen ss soldiers from Das reich division in a soviet village with a Sd.Kfz half track in 1941" width="514" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">SS soldiers from the 2nd Motorised Division 'Das Reich' in a Soviet village with a Sd.Kfz 10 half track in 1941</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-96PzgxRxqJ0/VCowazZL1RI/AAAAAAAAL74/35TAXFed51Y/s1600/Luis-Taler-armando-italy-no-1-Italian-ss-division.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="waffen ss Italian SS division italian front november 1944" border="0" height="504" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-96PzgxRxqJ0/VCowazZL1RI/AAAAAAAAL74/35TAXFed51Y/s1600/Luis-Taler-armando-italy-no-1-Italian-ss-division.jpg" title="Italian number one SS division Armando Giorleo Luis Taler in 1944" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Šturmbannfûrer SS Luis Taler (left) and oberšturmbannfûrer Armando Giorleo from &nbsp;the Italian №1 SS Division on the Italian Front, November 1944.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HUybl6Y-J9w/VCoyjpqcicI/AAAAAAAAL8A/loLgQnsa_W8/s1600/Amsterdam-Der-Fuehrer-regiment-1940.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ss regiment der fuehrer amsterdam may 1940" border="0" height="474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HUybl6Y-J9w/VCoyjpqcicI/AAAAAAAAL8A/loLgQnsa_W8/s1600/Amsterdam-Der-Fuehrer-regiment-1940.jpg" title="Soldiers from SS regiment der fuehrer in amsterdam may 1940" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">A Gunner company from SS Regiment "Der Führer" &nbsp;passes by the south-eastern corner of the Royal Palace on Dam Square &nbsp;in Amsterdam, May 1940 &nbsp;in a Wanderer W-11.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eZ3sZbe1vgg/VCoz9VvqzbI/AAAAAAAAL8I/MYeRB_iZzCc/s1600/waffen-ss-soldiers-belgium-1944.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS soldiers Poteau belgium 1944" border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eZ3sZbe1vgg/VCoz9VvqzbI/AAAAAAAAL8I/MYeRB_iZzCc/s1600/waffen-ss-soldiers-belgium-1944.jpg" title="Waffen SS soldiers at belgian village of Poteau in December 1944" width="468" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">SS soldiers smoking cigarettes with an abandoned American armored M8 "Greyhound on the road near the Belgian village of Poteau, December 1944. early morning of December 18</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6jGFzXYZwgk/VCo1c7y5iwI/AAAAAAAAL8Q/hkgDMrVtWzQ/s1600/gestapo-ss-men-captured-prague-1945-may.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="SS gestapo men captured killed czechoslovakia 1945 may" border="0" height="468" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6jGFzXYZwgk/VCo1c7y5iwI/AAAAAAAAL8Q/hkgDMrVtWzQ/s1600/gestapo-ss-men-captured-prague-1945-may.jpg" title="May 1945 SS and Gestapo men captured by Czechs" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">A SS man and a Gestapo men captured by armed Czech men in Prague in May, 1945. One supposes they were later tortured and killed.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZtqnvRNv-Ak/VCo2vzquUOI/AAAAAAAAL8Y/QRfAxkp0flU/s1600/sepp-dietrich-greece-1941-british-officers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sepp Dietrich British POW Greece 1941" border="0" height="444" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZtqnvRNv-Ak/VCo2vzquUOI/AAAAAAAAL8Y/QRfAxkp0flU/s1600/sepp-dietrich-greece-1941-british-officers.jpg" title="Sepp Dietrich with captured British soldiers in Greece 1941" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich discusses with British officers terms of surrender in Greece. In 1941.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WFdVsBXQUJc/VCo4K90zi9I/AAAAAAAAL8g/oqPXQOOm344/s1600/Waffen-ss-1941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="waffen SS soldiers MG 34 machine gun Mariupol 1941" border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WFdVsBXQUJc/VCo4K90zi9I/AAAAAAAAL8g/oqPXQOOm344/s1600/Waffen-ss-1941.jpg" title="Waffen SS soldiers with MG 34 machine gun at Mariupol in 1941" width="466" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Waffen SS soldiers with a MG 34 machine gun at Mariupol, 1941</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Enab-TyKSNs/VCo5YR6Nf8I/AAAAAAAAL8o/hp42kh26HCM/s1600/leon-degrelle-wallonia-brigade-ss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Leon Degrelle SS wallonia Brigade" border="0" height="460" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Enab-TyKSNs/VCo5YR6Nf8I/AAAAAAAAL8o/hp42kh26HCM/s1600/leon-degrelle-wallonia-brigade-ss.jpg" title="Leon Degrelle with men from SS Wallonia Brigade" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Leon Degrelle with his men of the SS Wallonia Brigade</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L6h0etUt6Go/VCo6YP9hhuI/AAAAAAAAL8w/k6kD5UwB2Es/s1600/Ardennes-12th-armored-ss-division-january-1945-jagdpanther.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS Jagdpanther Ardennes january 1944" border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L6h0etUt6Go/VCo6YP9hhuI/AAAAAAAAL8w/k6kD5UwB2Es/s1600/Ardennes-12th-armored-ss-division-january-1945-jagdpanther.jpg" title="Waffen SS men in a Jagdanther at Ardennes January 1944" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Waffen SS men from the 12th Armored Division in a Jagdpanther in the Ardennes January, 1945</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eRvJJ3g76mY/VCo7-PWZpQI/AAAAAAAAL84/B9rSsvmw2g4/s1600/waffen-ss-man-destroyed-soviet-guns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eRvJJ3g76mY/VCo7-PWZpQI/AAAAAAAAL84/B9rSsvmw2g4/s1600/waffen-ss-man-destroyed-soviet-guns.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Eastern front: A waffen SS soldier looks through his binoculars. Destroyed Soviet vehicles seen in the background.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZvtCRG05dfc/VCo9UTOdoZI/AAAAAAAAL9A/0I15CFGojf8/s1600/liebstandarte-adolf-hitler-division-tiger-tank-stuch-ukraine-november-1943.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="462" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZvtCRG05dfc/VCo9UTOdoZI/AAAAAAAAL9A/0I15CFGojf8/s1600/liebstandarte-adolf-hitler-division-tiger-tank-stuch-ukraine-november-1943.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Soldiers of the "Liebstandarte" Adolf Hitler Division look on helplessly as a Tiger tank and a truck get bogged down in mud in the Fatima area of Ukraine, November, 1943.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-37or5Y7RvJE/VCpGMG4TgII/AAAAAAAAL9Y/q_s6iA_JLP8/s1600/4th-ss-panzer-corps-operation-conrad-hungary-january-1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS 4th SS panzer Corps operation conrad hungary 1945" border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-37or5Y7RvJE/VCpGMG4TgII/AAAAAAAAL9Y/q_s6iA_JLP8/s1600/4th-ss-panzer-corps-operation-conrad-hungary-january-1945.jpg" title="Waffen SS 4th panzer Corps Operation Conrad Hungary January 1945" width="454" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">German armored Sd.Kfz.251 / 9 "Stummel" &nbsp;with 4th SS Panzer Corps soldiers. In the foreground are prisoners of war and local, during the onset &nbsp;of the German operation "Conrad". Hungary, in January 1945.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x1Ehg1C9Dvg/VCpH0PMFt7I/AAAAAAAAL9g/TuxQzgHZ8ys/s1600/ribbentrop-1945-ss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Max Wunsche Rudolf von Ribbentrop ss 12th regiment" border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x1Ehg1C9Dvg/VCpH0PMFt7I/AAAAAAAAL9g/TuxQzgHZ8ys/s1600/ribbentrop-1945-ss.jpg" title="Max Wunsche Rudolf von Ribbentrop Waffen SS 12th regiment" width="474" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">The commander of the 12th SS Regiment Obersturmbannfuehrer Max Wünsche, (1914-1995) (with the bandage on his head) and the commander of the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 12th Regiment of the SS Hauptsturmführer Rudolf von Ribbentrop (Rudolf von Ribbentrop, the year of birth - 1921, on the right part of the frame) on the streets of the French village of Po (Rots) with soldiers of the 25th Regiment of the SS. France, 9 June 1944.Rudolf von Ribbentrop - the son of the minister propogandy Germany Joachim von Ribbentrop.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EFfr-2oicFQ/VCpJLCZhfRI/AAAAAAAAL9o/Fh2ehfO0nJc/s1600/waffen-ss-soldiers-hungary-1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="waffen ss soldiers hungary 1945" border="0" height="448" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EFfr-2oicFQ/VCpJLCZhfRI/AAAAAAAAL9o/Fh2ehfO0nJc/s1600/waffen-ss-soldiers-hungary-1945.jpg" title="waffen ss soldiers in hungary in 1945" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Towards the end. Waffen SS on the road in Hungary in 1945</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SWNabkbM4x0/VCpK4B_ltjI/AAAAAAAAL9w/5PGK_DyLJyA/s1600/waffen-ss-das-reich-elnya-1941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SWNabkbM4x0/VCpK4B_ltjI/AAAAAAAAL9w/5PGK_DyLJyA/s1600/waffen-ss-das-reich-elnya-1941.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Men from 'Das Reich' during battle at Elnya in 1941</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XIWee794qKQ/VCpLsd09eNI/AAAAAAAAL94/qFDho2F5SLc/s1600/SS-division-nord-with-Finnish-soldier-1942.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XIWee794qKQ/VCpLsd09eNI/AAAAAAAAL94/qFDho2F5SLc/s1600/SS-division-nord-with-Finnish-soldier-1942.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">A soldier from the 6th SS Mountain Division 'Nord' shakes the hand of a wounded Finnish soldier in September-October 1942</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pjv97k5setE/VCpNaArOKcI/AAAAAAAAL-A/Ez4qhEaEErk/s1600/battle-kursk-1943-tiger-88mm-armor-piercing-shell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="472" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pjv97k5setE/VCpNaArOKcI/AAAAAAAAL-A/Ez4qhEaEErk/s1600/battle-kursk-1943-tiger-88mm-armor-piercing-shell.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Men from the 5th SS 'Wiking' Division frantically load 88 mm armor piercing shells onto a Tiger tank during the Batle of Kursk. July 1943.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gAQVihesVrA/VCpOnWKEfiI/AAAAAAAAL-I/wG9O9rrLNd4/s1600/waffen-ss-soldiers-Kharkov-april-1943.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="waffen ss kharkov aprril 1943" border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gAQVihesVrA/VCpOnWKEfiI/AAAAAAAAL-I/wG9O9rrLNd4/s1600/waffen-ss-soldiers-Kharkov-april-1943.jpg" title="Waffen SS soldiers in Kharkov April 1943" width="540" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Waffen SS soldiers in Kharkov (February-April 1943)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-snWtHivTDcc/VCpPe451F1I/AAAAAAAAL-Q/gbpZbWSOGOM/s1600/Danzig-post-office-september-1-1939-ss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="SS soldiers Polish employees Danzig post office September 1, 1939" border="0" height="436" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-snWtHivTDcc/VCpPe451F1I/AAAAAAAAL-Q/gbpZbWSOGOM/s1600/Danzig-post-office-september-1-1939-ss.jpg" title="SS soldiers escort Polish employees of Danzig post office after they were flushed out with explosives and flame-throwers on September 1, 1939" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">SS soldiers escort Polish employees of Danzig post office after they were flushed out with explosives and flame-throwers on September 1, 1939.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CV9x8AEmKxc/VCpQpCbtytI/AAAAAAAAL-c/SqXntadiI9M/s1600/dead-ss-soldier-battle-Bulge-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=" dead Waffen SS soldier Battle of the Bulge 1945" border="0" height="476" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CV9x8AEmKxc/VCpQpCbtytI/AAAAAAAAL-c/SqXntadiI9M/s1600/dead-ss-soldier-battle-Bulge-ww2.jpg" title="A dead Waffen SS soldier lies in the snow after the Battle of the Bulge. 1945" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">A dead Waffen SS soldier lies in the snow after the Battle of the Bulge. 1945</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IDsu197w4X8/VCpRlTP_tyI/AAAAAAAAL-k/F871fVwCs6k/s1600/waffen-ss-arnhem-1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Soldiers 9th SS Division Arnhem Stug 3 September 1944" border="0" height="448" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IDsu197w4X8/VCpRlTP_tyI/AAAAAAAAL-k/F871fVwCs6k/s1600/waffen-ss-arnhem-1945.jpg" title="Soldiers of 9th SS Divsion in Arnhem with a Stug 3 in September 1944" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">S</span>oldiers of 9th SS Divsion in Arnhem with a Stug 3 in September 1944<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bJ-4mofqYK8/VCpS3gOuAtI/AAAAAAAAL-s/qWptARdy_jI/s1600/Heinz-hammel-group-ss-kharkov-1943.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="SS men Heinz Harmel battle group yard Kharkov Tractor Plant March 16, 1943." border="0" height="482" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bJ-4mofqYK8/VCpS3gOuAtI/AAAAAAAAL-s/qWptARdy_jI/s1600/Heinz-hammel-group-ss-kharkov-1943.jpg" title="SS men from the Heinz Harmel battle group on the yard of the Kharkov Tractor Plant. March 16, 1943." width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">SS men from the Heinz Harmel battle group on the yard of the Kharkov Tractor Plant. March 16, 1943.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-amhLhkPPfWI/VCpUAwm8w2I/AAAAAAAAL-0/YlvJkxjkwJM/s1600/waffen-ss-cherkassy-1944.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen Ss Korsun Cherkassy pocket january february 1944" border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-amhLhkPPfWI/VCpUAwm8w2I/AAAAAAAAL-0/YlvJkxjkwJM/s1600/waffen-ss-cherkassy-1944.jpg" title="The lucky Waffen SS survivors in Korsun-Cherkassy.January-February 1944. Thousands of Germans were massacred at the Korsun pocket by Konev's men." width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">The lucky Waffen SS survivors in Korsun-Cherkassy.January-February 1944. Thousands of Germans were massacred at the Korsun pocket by Koniev's men.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZHTpDqwu74w/VCpV5fh2FPI/AAAAAAAAL-8/wllflgUkqdw/s1600/Waffen-ss-relax-1941-russia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS soldiers rest Eastern front 1941" border="0" height="482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZHTpDqwu74w/VCpV5fh2FPI/AAAAAAAAL-8/wllflgUkqdw/s1600/Waffen-ss-relax-1941-russia.jpg" title="Waffen SS men take a breather during a lull in the fighting. Eastern Front 1941." width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Waffen SS men take a breather during a lull in the fighting. Eastern Front 1941.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BfubMyoOPC0/VCpWyJr_g2I/AAAAAAAAL_E/mmNEOBgU1nc/s1600/Free-Korps-Denmark-ss-1942-Danes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Danes greet soldiers SS Free Korps Denmark August 1942." border="0" height="458" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BfubMyoOPC0/VCpWyJr_g2I/AAAAAAAAL_E/mmNEOBgU1nc/s1600/Free-Korps-Denmark-ss-1942-Danes.jpg" title="Danes greet soldiers of the SS Free Korps Denmark after they returned from the Eastern Front. August 1942." width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Danes greet soldiers of the SS Free Korps Denmark after they returned from the Eastern Front. August 1942.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IfYET-BQf9I/VCpXtwE7ngI/AAAAAAAAL_M/YikXd4rxSyI/s1600/6th-ss-mountain-division-nord-dog-sleigh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS 6th Mountain Division 'Nord' load ammunition dog sleigh" border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IfYET-BQf9I/VCpXtwE7ngI/AAAAAAAAL_M/YikXd4rxSyI/s1600/6th-ss-mountain-division-nord-dog-sleigh.jpg" title="Men of 6th Mountain Division 'Nord' load ammunition on sleigh pulled by dogs" width="473" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Men of 6th Mountain Division 'Nord' load ammunition on sleigh pulled by dogs</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">RELATED</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><b style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://poisonpage.blogspot.in/2015/08/waffen-ss-training-personal-narrative-recruit.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WAFFEN SS: Training Made Them The Best: Personal Narrative Of A Recruit</a></b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.in/2011/12/waffen-ss-in-action-rare-pictures.html" style="background-color: white; color: #783f04; text-align: left;">WAFFEN SS IN ACTION: Rare, Unseen Pictures: Part 1 (LARGE IMAGES)</a></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.com/2011/12/waffen-ss-in-action-rare-unseen_28.html" style="background-color: white; color: #783f04; text-align: left;"><b>WAFFEN SS IN ACTION</b>: Rare, Unseen Pictures: Part 2</a></span><br /><br /><a class="gs-title" data-ctorig="http://uncensoredhistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/waffen-ss-war-criminals-great-soldiers.html" data-cturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://uncensoredhistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/waffen-ss-war-criminals-great-soldiers.html&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=0CBAQFjAGahUKEwiYh4GR3azHAhWPG44KHT6FCN4&amp;client=internal-uds-cse&amp;usg=AFQjCNFy9VR5ZcuhTbcV4x2xIxL5knVbtw" dir="ltr" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://uncensoredhistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/waffen-ss-war-criminals-great-soldiers.html&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=0CBAQFjAGahUKEwiYh4GR3azHAhWPG44KHT6FCN4&amp;client=internal-uds-cse&amp;usg=AFQjCNFy9VR5ZcuhTbcV4x2xIxL5knVbtw" style="background-color: white; color: #0000cc; cursor: pointer; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden; text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Waffen SS</b>: War Criminals Or Great Soldiers?</span></a></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-56111675898388628222014-09-27T20:35:00.001-07:002016-09-11T23:00:55.260-07:00Italian Soldiers Were No Cowards During WW2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The popular perception in the western media is that Italian soldiers during the Second World War were best at one thing; Turning around and fleeing. Or raising their hands as soon they spotted an Allied soldier.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>This is untrue. Italians proved their bravery when they fought well during the Great War. In the next world war, they had no motivation to fight. Mussolini was no Pied Piper of Hamelin like Hitler. And unlike the Germans, the Italians were no children willing to jump off a cliff.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Going around destroying everything and bullying others just because a vengeful man says so is no bravery. Look at what happened to the Germans in 1945.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Italians were wiser, smarter and more down-to-earth, just the kind of people this Earth needs.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gs8i8Gglgxo/VCeZezRPBfI/AAAAAAAAL3Y/PAHx2vouE8w/s1600/italian-soldier-talks-mother-before-war-ethiopia-1935.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Italian soldier mother Abyssinia invasion 1935" border="0" height="506" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gs8i8Gglgxo/VCeZezRPBfI/AAAAAAAAL3Y/PAHx2vouE8w/s1600/italian-soldier-talks-mother-before-war-ethiopia-1935.jpg" title="An Italian soldier bids his mother goodbye before going to Abyssinia to fight in 1935" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;An Italian soldier bids farewell to his mother before heading to Abyssinia in 1935<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">It is enough to go back to World War I. In “The Great War” the Italians fought with extraordinary bravery and sustained appalling battlefield casualties. They also fought on the right side. (Allied military deaths in the First World War: France, 1,397,000; Britain, 886,939; Italy, 651,000. Not bad, not bad at all.)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><a href="http://takimag.com/article/when_italians_werent_cowards_nicholas_farrell/print#ixzz3EfvkohjL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://takimag.com/article/when_italians_werent_cowards_nicholas_farrell/print#ixzz3EfvkohjL</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9zdLYTSpZaQ/VCeZeshvYnI/AAAAAAAAL3U/BsiQBiWf_nc/s1600/ITALIAN-soldiers-board-train-head-abyssinia-1935.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Italian soldiers train abyssinia invasion 1935" border="0" height="404" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9zdLYTSpZaQ/VCeZeshvYnI/AAAAAAAAL3U/BsiQBiWf_nc/s1600/ITALIAN-soldiers-board-train-head-abyssinia-1935.jpg" title="Italian soldiers leaving by train to fight in the Abyssinia invasion in 1935" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Italian soldiers in Montevarchi before heading for Abyssinia, 1935.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">In his new book called 'Mussolini and Hitler - a Fatal Friendship,' Dr Goeshel of Manchester University will attempt to set the record straight. The book is due to be published by Yale University Press in 2016.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">However, when Dr Goeschel started his research in 2010 a different picture of both Mussolini and the Italian war effort emerged.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">He travelled up to four times a year to Italy's Central State Archives in Rome to view the official records not normally seen by the public.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Jokes about Italy's lack of military prowess and faint-heated approach to combat also did not stand up to scrutiny when he examined records of campaigns such as North Africa, Greece, the Balkans and Russia.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">He said: 'It was a very famous assertion that the Germans had to bail out the Italians out.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">'But this notion is a post war myth - perpetuated by German war veterans who regarded the Italians as lazy and cowardly.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">'The records show the Italians fought courageously and brutally - but were let down by bad leadership.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">'Italians also fought on the Eastern front - and testimony by Russian POWs said they were just as brutal as the Germans.'</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Source: <a href="http://goo.gl/ZzUPv8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Daily Mail</a></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IcvT2MGRFvE/VCd85qJwTbI/AAAAAAAAL0U/lpni-gIj5oA/s1600/italian-soldiers-greece-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Italian invasion Greece 1941" border="0" height="456" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IcvT2MGRFvE/VCd85qJwTbI/AAAAAAAAL0U/lpni-gIj5oA/s1600/italian-soldiers-greece-ww2.jpg" title="Italian soldiers in Greece 1941" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Italian soldiers in Greece in 1941<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">At the outbreak of WWII Italy was ill prepared for battle against more modern adversaries. Italy had zero oil production, no aircraft carriers, tanks with fragile armour, artillery mainly of WW1 vintage, a navy which could not target shipping at night (no radar), and inferior aircraft.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Mussolini had a vision of reforming the glories of the Roman Empire by regaining the territory surrounding the Mediterranean “mare nostro”. From the outset of Italy’s intervention in WWII – Italian leadership demonstrated incompetence - 35% of Italian merchant shipping was impounded in hostile shorelines. Italy’s main cities were also immediately bombed. Italy bombed British outposts in the Mediterranean especially Malta. Axis supply lines to Africa were continually hampered by British forces based at Malta denying Italian and&nbsp;German troops vital supplies. Hitler persuaded Mussolini to postpone the invasion of Malta (operation Hercules) until victory was achieved in North Africa.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">The Italian soldier is sadly the forgotten soldier of WWII which was the most oppressive period of Italian history. At El Alamein 30,000 Italians surrendered to a numerically superior British force but it is important to note the battle casualties sustained : 25,000 Italo-German and 13,000 British dead or wounded. Such casualties proved that Italians did not surrender early in battle. The Folgore, Brescia and Pavia divisions were annihilated as they defended and shed blood heroically for 2 weeks. The uneasy relationship with the Germans was highlighted at El Alamein as they abandoned the Italians, having taken all available transport to retreat.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Italian units demonstrated their fighting ability in the Russian campaign. History's last successful cavalry charge was by the cream of Italy - the Savoy Cavalry regiment. 600 Savoia sabre charged 2,000 Russians defending with machine guns and artillery at Isbuscenskij on August 24, 1942.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">The Italian elite Alpini mountain troops saved themselves plus many German divisions from destruction and capture during the Soviet offensive of 1942.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Holding territory or inflicting death/destruction on the enemy is not the true mark of heroism in war. Survival against all odds shows the real character of a heroic soldier. The Italian 8th Army trapped in the Russian encirclement of the Don who managed to avoid death or capture by breaking free all proved themselves to be heroes of the highest level.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">The brave men of the 8th Army marched on foot without winter clothing and boots in the dead of winter. Night and day thousands died not only from Russian bombs, rockets, and bullets but also from the terrible cold. Starving and without ammunition the last great display of Italian heroism “to die fighting” was shown at the village of Arbuzov where the remnants of the 35th corps mounted bayonet attacks to overcome fortified Russian positions. After Arbuzov “the valley of death” the Italians left in their wake a trail of frozen corpses and abandoned equipment. Only the fittest and luckiest survived what became a 28 day ordeal out of the encirclement of the Don.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">In conclusion there is much evidence to support the bravery of Italian Soldiers in WWII and no proper justification to portray them as cowards. It is insulting to the Italian soldiers who fought bravely and more so to the many thousands of them who died in battle. In recent conflicts the Italian soldier now has an excellent reputation where hearts and minds have been won over.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><a href="http://goo.gl/jmEXQc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Commandosupremo.com</a></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xfo5u6luUJs/VCd_Hv7CMsI/AAAAAAAAL0k/ZkVfsCb0Ns4/s1600/Italian-soldiers-captured-battle-el-alamein.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Italian POW Battle El Alamein North Africa WW2" border="0" height="418" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xfo5u6luUJs/VCd_Hv7CMsI/AAAAAAAAL0k/ZkVfsCb0Ns4/s1600/Italian-soldiers-captured-battle-el-alamein.jpg" title="Italian POW after the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Italian soldiers captured in North Africa after the Battle of El Alamein<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Italy was in no way ready for an offensive war. However Mussolini desperately wanted to participate in the redrawing of the map of Europe and so overlooked the state of Italy's military-industrial complex in order to feed his ego. Italian industrial power was a mere fraction of that of Britain, France or Germany and was not ready to produce the guns, ammunition, artillery, tanks, and trucks on the scale that was needed. At the beginning of the Italian entry into the war, its forces were equipped more in line with the First World War rather than the Second.</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Italy's artillery included vestiges of the previous century with a contingent of horse artillery and many leftovers from World War I. The newer models, while very effective were never made in large enough numbers. Modern tanks were virtually non-existent at the start of Italy's war effort and had more lightly armored vehicles and "tankettes". By the time Italy started producing better tanks and mobile artillery that could compete with the allied weapons it was too late to make a difference. Small arms, such as Beretta pistols and automatic rifles were very capable, but several machine and sub-machine gun types were often poorly made. Even the shoddy models were always in short supply since Italy lacked the industrial strength for mass production of weapons.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">The Italian shipyards produced (or retrofitted) fast and well designed ships but they had the fatal flaws of being light in armor and without radar. To combat their shortcomings the Regia Marina created cheap but near suicidal craft such as Explosive Motor Boats and Il "Maiale", a two man human torpedo/mine - hardly the equipment to inspire confidence, but certainly an example of Italian bravery.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Italian air power looked good on paper but was virtually non-existent, with only a few thousand aircraft at the start of the war, many of them bi-planes. The few modern aircraft created were underpowered, poorly designed and no match against allied fighters. The Regia Aeronautica also had the deplorable task of dropping poison gas during the conquest of Ethiopia to the disgust of the international community.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Of all the major military forces involved at the start of World War II, Italy had the by far the least competent high command. Mussolini filled the officer positions with men whose only "qualification" was loyalty to Il Duce. Before the start of hostilities Italy did have some capable generals - especially those who experienced the mistakes made during the First World War. However things would change once Mussolini attempted to militarize Italy as he would purge the country of anyone whose allegiance was questioned. Many Men from titled families, whose ancestors had been fighting for centuries were considered more loyal to the King and so stripped of their status and given menial positions. Anyone unlucky enough to be more out-spoken on Mussolini would become a confino and exiled to wastelands like Italy's holdings in Somalia to suffer in the heat. What was left were a group of military commanders short on any talent or innovation but long on loyalty to Mussolini's long term fascist goals. The Italian navy, with a limited number of fighting ships was handcuffed by extremely conservative approach by its admiralty. Conversely, men like Rodolfo Graziani, the "Butcher of Ethiopia" were loyal to Mussolini even till the end and would throw his men into fights he knew that they could not win. It would not take long to prove how poorly the high command would lead Italy's troops, and unfairly put into question their bravery.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">When the poorly led Italian troops were used in conjunction with, or under German forces, they fought considerably better. The Italian forces that participated in Hitler's invasion of Russia were known to have fought particularly well, despite facing vastly superior numbers of Soviet troops and harsh weather. In fact, the bravery of the Italian Alpini (mountain troops) and Voloire (horse artillery) regiments during Operation Barbarossa was legendary. Even when the entire offensive started to fail, Radio Moscow was heard to say "Only the Italian Alpini Corps is to be considered unbeaten on the Russian Front." On several occasions these brave men were surrounded by enemy forces, only to successfully battle back to their own lines. Italy's attempt to take over Greece was a complete disaster; Italy was beaten back by the much weaker Greeks into Albania. Once Germany took over the Greece campaign, the Italian forces under their command fought much more effectively than under their own generals, whom they regarded as little more than Mussolini's butchers.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">World War II was not met with enthusiasm but despair. It seemed that only Mussolini and his fascist cronies were the ones interested in war and so in 1940 Italy started out on the attempt to conquer the Mediterranean with troops that had no faith in their commanders or a desire to fight. The botched attempt to take over Greece was met with a fierce resistance from men fighting for their lives and homeland, which had only decades before been ruled by the Ottoman Turks for centuries. The Greek forces were ready to die for their freedom; the Italian forces had no such passion driving them to fight their best.&nbsp;</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;http://www.lifeinitaly.com/history/world-war-2.asp#sthash.dWh4tqTu.dpuf</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gQ-e7fTfKJw/VCeAvbHtCCI/AAAAAAAAL0w/ESU9Ku98q9Y/s1600/Italain-soldiers-M-13-40-tank-north-africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Italian soldiers tank north africa ww2" border="0" height="502" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gQ-e7fTfKJw/VCeAvbHtCCI/AAAAAAAAL0w/ESU9Ku98q9Y/s1600/Italain-soldiers-M-13-40-tank-north-africa.jpg" title="Italian soldiers with their tank in North Africa" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Italian soldiers in North Africa with a M 13/40 tank<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">The myth of Italian cowardice began on September 1940 when 36,000 British soldiers repelled 200,000 troops of the Regio Esercito bent on invading Egypt.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">In need of a boost for national morale, British intelligence presented that battle as a triumph of British courage over Italian spinelessness. The tale was picked up by Allied media and it would stick through World War II and beyond.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Even though only the most ardent Fascists were in favor of Italy entering the war, the truth is that Italian soldiers fought bravely in just about any battle they participated in. Their problem was leadership, poor equipment and faulty industrial support.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><b>Mussolini Eradicated Many Career Officers</b></b></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Leadership was a three part problem. First, Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini had purged the highest ranks of the armed forces. The career soldiers, usually men who belonged to upper class families who had served in the military for generations, were replaced by Fascist cronies.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Secondly, the career officers detested Mussolini many considered him less than a clown and would do anything in their power to subvert his orders. Finally, there was a caste system between officers and enlisted men. Many times, officers treated the regular troops as servants, requiring them to shine their boots or wash their clothes. Needles to say this caused unnecessary friction.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><b>Equipment was outmoded</b></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Italian weaponry did not meet modern standards. The Regio Esercito artillery corps in particular, still used horse drawn pieces built in the 19th Century and countless World War I vintage guns. The tanks were dated.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">The Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) fared a bit better. Its capital ships were well designed and fast. The smaller crafts developed an excellent reputation during daring raids in the Mediterranean. The big ships, however, lacked sufficient armor and had no radar. Italian naval commanders however, made use of their ships' excellent rage finder and fire control systems to make up for some of the deficiencies. But the ship captains had no control over their actions. Decisions were made at naval headquarters, many times without knowing the combat situation.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Perhaps the most outdated corps of the Italian armed forces was the Regia Aeronautica (Air Force). While its strength was officially set at 3,296 aircraft, only 2,000 were fit for flying in combat. Worse yet, only 166 were modern fighters that never-the-less, were slow and difficult to control.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><b>Industrial Output was Inadequate</b></b></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">At the beginning of World War II Italian industrial production was haplessly insufficient; barely 15 % of the British, French or German output.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Even companies like Beretta, which provided excellent pistols and rifles, could not produce enough to keep the military supplied. It just got worse as the war raged on.</span></div><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></b><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><b>Italians Distinguished Themselves in Combat</b></b></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Hindrances aside, Alpini, Grenadiers and Bersaglieri units of the Savoia Battalion fought gallantly at the 1941 Battle of Keren in East Africa. In the Soviet Union, the Littorio, Brescia and Trento Divisions, as well as the 7th Bersaglieri Regiment distinguish themselves.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">But it was the actions of the Folgore Division of paratroopers during the second battle of El Alamein that should have erased all doubts about Italian bravery. From October 23 to October 26, 1942, the Folgore repel the attacks of the famous British Desert Rats and the 1st Free French Division. The Allies abandoned the sector defended by the Italians and eventually broke the defenders lines in the German zone.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">No less a figure than German Field Marshal Edwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, expressed his admiration for the way the Italians had fought at El Alamein.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Source:<b><a href="https://suite.io/ivan-castro/3jkx28x" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Ivan Castro</a></b></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JeDUIRDTnQw/VCeCwbY4KwI/AAAAAAAAL08/OjTxy21h9jM/s1600/Italian-soldiers-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="italian marines Savioa Marchetti sm 82 transport plane" border="0" height="414" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JeDUIRDTnQw/VCeCwbY4KwI/AAAAAAAAL08/OjTxy21h9jM/s1600/Italian-soldiers-ww2.jpg" title="Italian marines climb on a transport plane during ww2" width="640" /></a></div>Italian marines climbing aboard a Savoia Marchetti SM.82 transport plane<br /><br />VIDEO: ITALIAN DOCUMENTARY ON THEFIGHTING IN NORTH AFRICA<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/k1Xr2Y09WLg?rel=0" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ic81td1aYnU/VCeEY01ZSuI/AAAAAAAAL1M/5_3ZdGeVqCw/s1600/Italian-soldiers-pow-stalingrad-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Italian POW Stalingrad 1943" border="0" height="396" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ic81td1aYnU/VCeEY01ZSuI/AAAAAAAAL1M/5_3ZdGeVqCw/s1600/Italian-soldiers-pow-stalingrad-001.jpg" title="Italian POW at Stalingrad in 1943" width="640" /></a></div>&nbsp;Italian POW at Stalingrad<br /><br />THE BRAVERY OF THE ALPINI DIVISION INSTALINGRAD<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">During World War II, Italy fielded six Alpine divisions:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">1st Alpine Division Taurinense</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">2nd Alpine Division Tridentina</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">3rd Alpine Division Julia</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">4th Alpine Division Cuneense</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">5th Alpine Division Pusteria</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">6th Alpine Division Alpi Graie</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Each division consisted of two Alpini regiments with three battalions each, one Alpine Artillery Regiment with three Artillery groups, one Mixed Engineer Battalion, one Logistic Battalion and some support units. The strength of each division was 573 officers and 16,887 NCOs and soldiers for a total strength of 17,460 men. Also each division had almost 5,000 mules and 500 vehicles of various types at its disposal.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">The divisions saw combat in France, Africa, Italy, Albania, The Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Greece. One Alpini battalion was employed inEast Africa. In 1942, Tridentina, Julia and Cuneense division were sent to fight in the Soviet Union. In Russia, instead of being deployed in the Caucasus mountains as expected, the Alpini were tasked with holding a front on the plains of the Don River. As a result of this disastrous strategic decision, troops armed, trained, and equipped for mountain warfare were pitted in the plains against tanks and mechanized infantry, to counter which they were neither equipped nor trained. Despite this, the Alpini held the front until January 1943, when, due to the collapse of the Axis front, they were encircled by the advancing Soviet Army. The Alpini were able to break the encirclement and fight their way towards the new line of the front established after the Axis retreat. Only about one third of the Tridentina division (4250 survivors of 15,000 troops deployed) and one tenth of the Julia (1,200/15,000) were able to survive this odyssey. The Cuneense division was annihilated.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K2kZrP-ydVM/VCeFcbVyrmI/AAAAAAAAL1c/jdxiebST8c8/s1600/Italian-soldier-firing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="374" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K2kZrP-ydVM/VCeFcbVyrmI/AAAAAAAAL1c/jdxiebST8c8/s1600/Italian-soldier-firing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>North Africa, 1941. An Italian soldier firing a Fiat-Revelli M 1914/35 machine gun<br /><br /><b>VIDEO: <span style="color: blue;">A DRAMATISED VERSION OF HOW THE ITALIANS LOST THE DON FRONT IN 1942 NEAR STALINGRAD</span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwc8cuIzBdCJqThLD0ktx46gAHIBDle-ubiXzBAz7pziBZWnTRFo45qUgyVAUqS4Yjyzbri0Vdp6sE8Tz7Ruw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><b><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-po9RwX8aSH8/VCeLiLZsOAI/AAAAAAAAL1s/5HaOVolPJ74/s1600/italian-pilots-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="470" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-po9RwX8aSH8/VCeLiLZsOAI/AAAAAAAAL1s/5HaOVolPJ74/s1600/italian-pilots-ww2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Italian pilots with a Savola-Marchetti 79 aircraft and ammunition<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">THE BRAVE ITALIANS IN RUSSIA</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">On June 1941, Benito Mussolini decided to send 60000 Italian troops in Ukraine to take part in Operatio Barbarosa. Under the command of General Giovanni Messe these troops performed well, advancing deep into Soviet Union. By July 1942, the number had grown to 200000.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">On August 1942, the Soviet forces near Serafimovich launched a counterattack against the Italians holding the Don River. The Italians were outnumbered but they managed to hold their grounds. The Soviet tanks were stopped with molotov cocktails.&nbsp;</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">On August 24th, with the victory near Serafimovich, Italian Savoia Cavalry made up of 600 mounted soldiers launched a counterattack on the Isbuschenski steppe. The Soviets forces consisted of 2000 men with mortar and artillery support. One Italian squadron attacked head on, while the other came behind the enemy lines armed only with sabres. They caught the Soviets completely by surprise and overran their positions. The Soviets lost two battalions in one of the last cavalry attacks of WWII.&nbsp;</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">During the Soviet operation which eventually led to the German VI. Army being encircled, to the north of the Soviet breakthrough, the Italian Alpini Corps held firm against Soviets attacks--the Alpini were the best units in the Italian Army--but it didn't matter, because subsequently the Soviets broke through the Hungarian lines to the north.&nbsp;</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">The Alpini Corps, then, was surrounded because of breakthroughs to the north and south. It fought its way out as a coherent fighting unit in a spectacular display of bravery under adverse conditions. Some units, like the Cuneense Division, sacrificed themselves so that their comrades could break through and escape. It had many similarities to the retreat of the USMC at Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War. Although it suffered horrible casualties from the weather and the Soviets, the Alpini Corps did in fact break through the encirclement still in military order--though it was wrecked as a fighting unit and had to be withdrawn.&nbsp;</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;">Some of the feats of the Alpini Corps, especially the Tridentina Division, were really incredible, as were those of some of the attached units, like the Monte Cervino Ski Battalion and the XXX Assault Engineer Battalion. The men took on T-34 tanks with nothing but Molotov cocktails and mines.&nbsp;</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Also, in North Africa, after the initial failures Italian units started to perform well. For example, the Folgore airborne division fought bravely in the Second Battle of El Alamein.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?t=34020" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?t=34020</a></span></span></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aaJhIz5-C5Q/VCeMgF4SEEI/AAAAAAAAL10/99FCDsn5Cpw/s1600/Italian-pow-British-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="454" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aaJhIz5-C5Q/VCeMgF4SEEI/AAAAAAAAL10/99FCDsn5Cpw/s1600/Italian-pow-British-ww2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Italian POW under the escort &nbsp;of a British officer in North Africa<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7BRb7k0wQfg/VCeN-XzUXhI/AAAAAAAAL2A/TS9spKa2h70/s1600/Giuseppe-miralem-italian-cruiser-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Italian cruiser Giuseppe Miralem" border="0" height="448" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7BRb7k0wQfg/VCeN-XzUXhI/AAAAAAAAL2A/TS9spKa2h70/s1600/Giuseppe-miralem-italian-cruiser-ww2.jpg" title="Italian cruiser Giuseppe Miralem" width="640" /></a></div>An fighter is about to be catapulted from Italian cruiser Giuseppe Miralem<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-II6vLcWcibM/VCePUlYAQ2I/AAAAAAAAL2M/-INs8P1Tm5I/s1600/Hitler-visit-to-italy-italian-soldiers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hitler guard of honor visit Italy Mussolini" border="0" height="464" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-II6vLcWcibM/VCePUlYAQ2I/AAAAAAAAL2M/-INs8P1Tm5I/s1600/Hitler-visit-to-italy-italian-soldiers.jpg" title="Hitler takes a guard of honor during a visit to Italy with Mussolini" width="640" /></a></div>Hitler takes a guard of honor during a visit to Italy<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i2iycFJLW3U/VCeQQWM3SVI/AAAAAAAAL2U/6Ij10tTSvvI/s1600/Italian-prisoners-stalingrad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i2iycFJLW3U/VCeQQWM3SVI/AAAAAAAAL2U/6Ij10tTSvvI/s1600/Italian-prisoners-stalingrad.jpg" width="456" /></a></div>Italian prisoners at Stalingrad, 1943<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8rxDBhZ004Q/VCeRFtKuyLI/AAAAAAAAL2c/ZmtYeUYepCc/s1600/dead-italian-soldiers-north-africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8rxDBhZ004Q/VCeRFtKuyLI/AAAAAAAAL2c/ZmtYeUYepCc/s1600/dead-italian-soldiers-north-africa.jpg" width="580" /></a></div>Dead Italian soldiers in North Africa. Mussolini's shattered dreams.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"Most Italian soldiers always fought with fanatical determination. Also some of their formations such as their armoured and Bersaglieri fought well &nbsp;in the African desert campaign. The Airborne and Alpine (Alpini) Divisions were top-notch."</i></span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2IXKGg8I3I0/VCeSYDuskDI/AAAAAAAAL2o/1P6-o8fRI2M/s1600/Italian-soldiers-beat-up-Yugoslav-civilians-partisans-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Italian soldiers Yugoslav civilians partisans ww2" border="0" height="410" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2IXKGg8I3I0/VCeSYDuskDI/AAAAAAAAL2o/1P6-o8fRI2M/s1600/Italian-soldiers-beat-up-Yugoslav-civilians-partisans-ww2.jpg" title="Italian soldiers beat up Yugoslav civilians and partisans" width="640" /></a></div>Italian soldiers beat up Yugoslav civilians and partisans<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SlMxrYbt3_0/VCeUV2O2FMI/AAAAAAAAL20/hY5DrAjx_mg/s1600/Italian-soldiers-Pavlograd-USSR-1941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="446" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SlMxrYbt3_0/VCeUV2O2FMI/AAAAAAAAL20/hY5DrAjx_mg/s1600/Italian-soldiers-Pavlograd-USSR-1941.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Italian soldiers in occupied Soviet Union, autumn 1941 at Pavlovgrad<br /><br /><b>VIDEO: <span style="color: blue;">ITALIAN FIGHTING FORCES DURING WW2</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sxyMFalHg1Q/VCebjlkFCVI/AAAAAAAAL3o/HSB7spGw-bM/s1600/italian-blackshirts-makala-abyssinia-1935.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="446" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sxyMFalHg1Q/VCebjlkFCVI/AAAAAAAAL3o/HSB7spGw-bM/s1600/italian-blackshirts-makala-abyssinia-1935.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Italian Blackshirts at Makala, Abyssinia, December 11, 1935<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U0dInIgXfmI/VCee8MFKCzI/AAAAAAAAL30/TV0pzSBLGEs/s1600/German-rangers-with-Italian-soldiers-yugoslavia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U0dInIgXfmI/VCee8MFKCzI/AAAAAAAAL30/TV0pzSBLGEs/s1600/German-rangers-with-Italian-soldiers-yugoslavia.jpg" width="588" /></a></div>German mountain-rangers with Italian soldiers during anti-partisan operation in Yugaslavia<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ARluwFPpwr0/VCef6bwsgTI/AAAAAAAAL38/bGJA4SVJkYE/s1600/Italian-soldiers-British-position-north-africa-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="574" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ARluwFPpwr0/VCef6bwsgTI/AAAAAAAAL38/bGJA4SVJkYE/s1600/Italian-soldiers-British-position-north-africa-ww2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Triumphant Italians pose against a captured British fortification during the campaign in North Africa<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r7h8_MIzI7c/VCeg4bpyChI/AAAAAAAAL4E/x3661JjZH2E/s1600/Italian-bersaglieri-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r7h8_MIzI7c/VCeg4bpyChI/AAAAAAAAL4E/x3661JjZH2E/s1600/Italian-bersaglieri-ww2.jpg" width="480" /></a></div>An Italian Bersaglieri riding a motorcycle with a Breda 30 machine gun in North Africa<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZmwTv2R0sE/VCekdSm1eSI/AAAAAAAAL4Q/-iClkhQFtvs/s1600/Italian-soldier-with-panzerfaust-allied-invasion-italy-1943-45.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="516" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZmwTv2R0sE/VCekdSm1eSI/AAAAAAAAL4Q/-iClkhQFtvs/s1600/Italian-soldier-with-panzerfaust-allied-invasion-italy-1943-45.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>An Italian with a Panzerfaust during the Allied invasion of Italy, 1943-45<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CWNT5eqljKk/VCelQPdLL1I/AAAAAAAAL4Y/rULhdrCmsuE/s1600/dead-italian-soldier-syracuse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="496" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CWNT5eqljKk/VCelQPdLL1I/AAAAAAAAL4Y/rULhdrCmsuE/s1600/dead-italian-soldier-syracuse.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>An Italian soldier lies dead as British soldiers rush past at a train station in Syracuse during the landings in Sicily, 1943<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vaTfI7rbCYY/VCemKiiXy4I/AAAAAAAAL4g/eDDG0HD6XvM/s1600/italian-soldiers-greece-1941-ss-soldiers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="444" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vaTfI7rbCYY/VCemKiiXy4I/AAAAAAAAL4g/eDDG0HD6XvM/s1600/italian-soldiers-greece-1941-ss-soldiers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Italian soldiers walk past a group of Waffen SS soldiers in Greece in 1941<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vd6TwrwLe9w/VCendE7wL7I/AAAAAAAAL4s/tEouik3rETE/s1600/Italian-soldiers-fire-102mm-gun-north-africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vd6TwrwLe9w/VCendE7wL7I/AAAAAAAAL4s/tEouik3rETE/s1600/Italian-soldiers-fire-102mm-gun-north-africa.jpg" width="510" /></a></div>Italians fire a 102 mm gun in North Africa<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7Ptj0NAm_Fo/VCeoTlaQa1I/AAAAAAAAL40/kYpxiSIJ5VM/s1600/George-Messe-italian-general-troops-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Italian general George Messe troops ww2" border="0" height="450" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7Ptj0NAm_Fo/VCeoTlaQa1I/AAAAAAAAL40/kYpxiSIJ5VM/s1600/George-Messe-italian-general-troops-ww2.jpg" title="Italian general George Messe meets his troops" width="640" /></a></div>Italian general George Messe meets his troops<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ro5m8ltWVIk/VCepFYwmQcI/AAAAAAAAL48/JgppvQ6qIO0/s1600/Italian-blackshirts-north-africa-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ro5m8ltWVIk/VCepFYwmQcI/AAAAAAAAL48/JgppvQ6qIO0/s1600/Italian-blackshirts-north-africa-ww2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Two Blackshirts in North Africa<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9qunr6Q93Zo/VCeq_-rzJTI/AAAAAAAAL5Q/Ei7Az41q6TE/s1600/Italian-soldiers-Dubrovnik-Yugoslavia-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="458" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9qunr6Q93Zo/VCeq_-rzJTI/AAAAAAAAL5Q/Ei7Az41q6TE/s1600/Italian-soldiers-Dubrovnik-Yugoslavia-ww2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Italian Bersaglieri march through the Yugoslav town of Dubrovnik<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Related</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.in/2010/09/italian-soldiers-during-ww2.html" target="_blank">Italian Soldiers During WW2: A Pictorial</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><i>Suggested Reading</i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cIg2EkeIS5s/VCj9ARFsbgI/AAAAAAAAL5g/WZc-hCu7oHQ/s1600/alpini-brave-italians-ww2.jpg" title="Sacrifice on the Steppe: The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942-1943 by HOPE HAMILTON" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sacrifice-Steppe-Stalingrad-Campaign-1942-1943/dp/1612000029/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=incrwarimag-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=GV3PUA5TDSPEPRYT&amp;creativeASIN=1612000029" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sacrifice on the Steppe: The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942-1943</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sacrifice-Steppe-Stalingrad-Campaign-1942-1943/dp/1612000029/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=incrwarimag-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=GV3PUA5TDSPEPRYT&amp;creativeASIN=1612000029" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">by HOPE HAMILTON</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When Germany’s Sixth Army advanced to Stalingrad in 1942, its long-extended flanks were mainly held by its allied armies—the Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians. But as history tells us, these flanks quickly caved in before the massive Soviet counter-offensive which commenced that November, dooming the Germans to their first catastrophe of the war. However, the historical record also makes clear that one allied unit held out to the very end, fighting to stem the tide—the <b>Italian Alpine Corps</b></span></i></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>--------------------------------</b></span></i></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></i></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--c15-O9VV6k/VCkAgyeEoOI/AAAAAAAAL5s/ytVv82EBfQ0/s1600/BRAVE-ITALIAN-WW2.jpg" title="Iron Hulls Iron Hearts: Mussolini's Elite Armoured Divisions in North Africa by IAN WALKER" /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Hulls-Hearts-Mussolinis-Divisions/dp/1861268394/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=incrwarimag-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=HK4QWL33RLRPX44D&amp;creativeASIN=1861268394" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Iron Hulls Iron Hearts: Mussolini's Elite Armoured Divisions in North Africa by IAN WALKER</a></b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; text-align: start;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The campaign in North Africa during World War Two was one of the most important of the conflict. The allies fought for control of North Africa against the German Afrika Korps led by Rommel. But the part played by Mussolini's Italian troops, and in particular the armored divisions, in support of the Germans is not so well known.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"></span></i></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;">The Italian Army in World War II has been treated almost as a joke. It is rumored that when the Nazi Foreign Minister said to Churchill - "You will be facing not only us but also the Italians." Churchill replied, "That's OK, we had them on our side last time, you're welcome to them."</span></i></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"></span></i></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;">Rommel, on the other hand, spoke of them quite differently. During the famous "Desert Fox" actions in North Africa, Rommel had more Italian troops and more Italian armor than he had German. Rommel's comments were that Italian troops were properly led they were as capable as any. Italian generals were better as friends of Il Duce than they were as fighting people.</span></i></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"></span></i></span><br /><div style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><span style="color: #222222;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Italian Littorio division did very good work at Tobruk, Gazala, and El Alamein. The Ariete division performed a dramatic day long stand at El Alamein effectively styming Allied plans to encircle and destroy the Axis forces. The Centauro division was brief but important in the American defeat at Kasserine Pass.</i></span></span></div><span style="color: #222222;"></span></div></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-47911428660365056062014-09-14T00:01:00.000-07:002016-09-11T23:00:55.234-07:00 Over 4500 Hitlerjugend Boys Fought The Red Army For Days: PICHELSDORF BRIDGE, BERLIN: APRIL 23, 1945:<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t8mhvYJ8t9k/VBU8xAZ7O1I/AAAAAAAALy8/klMSmzDKwhc/s1600/hitler-jugend-berlin-1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t8mhvYJ8t9k/VBU8xAZ7O1I/AAAAAAAALy8/klMSmzDKwhc/s1600/hitler-jugend-berlin-1945.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">On April 23rd, a regiment made up entirely of Hitlerjugend boys was ordered to defend the Pichelsdorf Bridges &nbsp;by the Havel River. Five thousand boys, wearing man-sized uniforms a few sizes too large, and helmets flopping around on their heads, took positions around the bridges. Armed with rifles, which some of them were barely able to shoot, machine guns and Panzerfausts, they felt invincible and adventuresome in their youthful eagerness to become Hitler’s heroes. Hitler personally planned the operation: bridges were to be defended at all costs, needed for General Wenck's “relief” XII army, advancing from the south-west.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The twelfth Army had a legendary reputation: In the beginning of war, the Army of Greece, which humiliated Italians for 6 months, fell to the same German twelfth’s army. But that was in 1941. Now, it was ordered to break through the Soviet Army, which by the end of the war, in 1945, was a juggernaut. The twelfth Army was ordered to leave the Western front and establish a corridor into Berlin. There was but a minor problem with Hitler’s otherwise “brilliant plan” of the surprise attack from the West – the Soviet 2nd Ukranian front, although surprised at first, quickly bogged down the advance of the twelfth Army and began driving it back.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Amply supplied with Panzerfausts and Faustpatrone, the Hitlerjugcnd boys lay alone or in pairs at irregular intervals in the trenches and foxholes on either side of the Heerstrasse in front of the Pichelsdorf bridges. The boys held off the Soviet tanks for 5 days, their mission senseless, their lives sacrificed for naught: the twelfth army was not fighting eastward into Berlin – it was fleeing westward. The Soviet tanks streamed into Berlin from all directions, via numerous alternative routs, leaving a contingent behind before the Pichelsdorf Bridges. It was methodically destroying the Hitlerjugend regiment, shelling its positions from a safe distance.</span></i></b></span><br /><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>&nbsp;Out of 5000 HJ troops, less than 500 survived by day 5 of bombardment. They were offered to surrender several times; they refused. When the Soviet Army took over their positions in a final hand-to-hand assault, only a handful was taken alive, still defiant, facing battle-hardened men, some of them the age of their fathers. A Soviet medical officer, while tending to a wounded 10-year-old, remarked in German, “Look what a mess you got yourself into, boy. You should have stayed home with your grandparents.” The HJ spat in the doctors face, hissing, “Heil Hitler!” &nbsp;While these kids held the bridges, Nazi bosses were using the bridges to escape from Berlin, leaving their brave tin soldiers to die.</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><a href="http://www.logos-publishing.com/Hitlerjugend-2.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.logos-publishing.com/Hitlerjugend-2.htm</a></i></b></span></div><br /><br />Much history of the Second World War goes largely unreported or under reported. especially in the West. especially if it involves Germans in 1945.<br /><br />One such event happened at the Pichelsdorf Bridge near Berlin Berlin, April 23, 1945. Dying days of war in Germany. The Russians were closing into Berlin from all sides inexorably. Hitler and Artur Axmann learnt that the Red Army was in the outskirts of Berlin and was about to cross the Havel river. Since there were no Wehrmacht troops to spare, about 4500 Hitler Youth boys, many hardly into their teens, &nbsp;were sent to protect the Pichelsdorf Bridge ("Pichelsdorfen Brücke" in German).<br /><br />The boys armed with only panzerfausts and light arms stopped Russian tanks in their tracks for two days. It was only after the Red Army used heavy arms that it could cross the bridge.<br /><br />Of the 4500 boys, only 500 lived. Others died fighting.<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of these wounded boys, carried into a hospital was told by a doctor, "You dummy! Look at what this has gotten you!" The boy straightened up, spit in the doctor's face, and said, "Long live the Fuhrer!" Such was their fanaticism, even at the end.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Not all were fanatics. Some fought in desperation because of peer pressure or from fear of what the Russians were doing to their mothers and sisters.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">These boys fought desperately for two days, all the while hearing the screams of German girls and women being raped by the Red Army soldiers.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">After the war, Axmann was convicted for sending boys into battle.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A nightmare. For the German people who have suffered no less than others because of the Nazis.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">There is hardly any mention (except for a paragraph) in English books or websites of the Pichelsdorf massacre. I wonder why?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">It is because the thinking in the West is that the Germans did evil things wherever they went between 1939-45 and so deserved what they got. But why not discuss it threadbare, just for the sake of history?&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">So that such things &nbsp;do not happen again.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">If anyone has more resources (books or websites) on this topic kindly let us know. It will only enrich the discussion.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>-----------------------------------</i></span></span><br /><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Russians by now were roaring toward Berlin, capitol of Nazi Germany, where Hitler had chosen to make his last stand. On April 23rd, battalions made up entirely of Hitler Youths were formed to hold the Pichelsdorf bridges by the Havel River. These bridges in Berlin were supposed to be used by General Wenck's relief army coming from the south. That army, unknown to the boys, had already been destroyed and now existed on paper only. It was one of several phantom armies being commanded by Hitler to save encircled Berlin.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">At the Pichelsdorf bridges, 5,000 boys, wearing man-sized uniforms several sizes too big and helmets that flopped around on their heads, stood by with rifles and Panzerfausts, ready to oppose the Russian Army. Within five days of battle, 4,500 had been killed or wounded.</span></span></i><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>From <a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/hj-boy-soldiers.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Historyplace</a></i></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>-------------------------------------------</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Reference:&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-46272804.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Der Spiegel</a></b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2. <a href="http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/vor-50-jahren-teil-1-kinder-sollten-den-fuehrer-retten_aid_151513.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Focus.de</a></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Suggested Reading</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">1.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #222222;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/kann-doch-nicht-Ende-Reichsjugenfuhrer/dp/3926584335/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=incrwarimag-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=QK43SMN7NVFSEBWT&amp;creativeASIN=3926584335" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Das kann doch nicht das Ende sein: Hitlers letzter Reichsjugenfuhrer erinnert sich </a></b>(German Edition) by ARTUR AXMANN</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/kann-doch-nicht-Ende-Reichsjugenfuhrer/dp/3926584335/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=incrwarimag-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=QK43SMN7NVFSEBWT&amp;creativeASIN=3926584335" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9p1QXiUHk3M/VBaAyIPQCnI/AAAAAAAALzk/6msMZlQxQpc/s1600/ARTUR-AXMANN.jpg" width="214" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x5gI_7HE1bY/VBZ7z6xiL2I/AAAAAAAALzM/KLIGwVvH71U/s1600/pichelsdorf-bridge-brucke-1908.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="326" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x5gI_7HE1bY/VBZ7z6xiL2I/AAAAAAAALzM/KLIGwVvH71U/s1600/pichelsdorf-bridge-brucke-1908.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>This where it all happened. An old image of the Pichelsdorfer Bridge of 1908</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><br /></b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z55qdGTwPVQ/VBZ9o00v--I/AAAAAAAALzY/Sg8kMdT6dtw/s1600/pichelsdorfer-bridge-pichelsdorf-bridge-hitler-youth-hitlerjugend-1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z55qdGTwPVQ/VBZ9o00v--I/AAAAAAAALzY/Sg8kMdT6dtw/s1600/pichelsdorfer-bridge-pichelsdorf-bridge-hitler-youth-hitlerjugend-1945.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Germans blew up the bridge in 1945</b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qCVifS_iJfg/VBfD9sy24OI/AAAAAAAAL0A/DX2NY3tgJm0/s1600/Pichelsdorf-bridge-2009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qCVifS_iJfg/VBfD9sy24OI/AAAAAAAAL0A/DX2NY3tgJm0/s1600/Pichelsdorf-bridge-2009.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Pichelsdorf Bridge in 2009 before a new one was built in its place.</b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nZVW8RgK2jI/VBfBk1I1qMI/AAAAAAAALz0/K9vkOLLRRCU/s1600/Freybruecke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nZVW8RgK2jI/VBfBk1I1qMI/AAAAAAAALz0/K9vkOLLRRCU/s1600/Freybruecke.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The new Pichelsdorfer Brucke (Now called Freybrucke) as it stands today</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><br /></b></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>RELATED...</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://incredibleimages4u.blogspot.in/2010/04/defending-berlin-in-1945-volkssturm.html" target="_blank">1945 Old Men And Boys Defend Berlin</a></b></span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://incredibleimages4u.blogspot.in/2010/04/hitler-youthhitler-jugend.html" target="_blank">HITLERJUGEND: Hitler's baby</a></b></span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://uncensoredhistory.blogspot.in/2014/09/sad-fate-of-hitler-youth-boys-in-1945.html" target="_blank"><b>Sad Fate Of The Hitler-Jugend In 1945</b></a></span></span></div></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-38276481321302174142014-02-17T23:31:00.000-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.183-07:00A City Of Doom: Berlin May 1945 In Pictures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">Berlin. May 1945. A city doomed. Paying for the madness of Germany's leaders. If there ever was hell on earth it was Berlin in May 1945.....</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yJVCxx4bwWQ/UwMLiQV3MrI/AAAAAAAALDI/iMtK-BDXkS0/s1600/Brken-Berlin-May-1945-Reichstag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brandenburg Gate Berlin 1945" border="0" height="428" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yJVCxx4bwWQ/UwMLiQV3MrI/AAAAAAAALDI/iMtK-BDXkS0/s1600/Brken-Berlin-May-1945-Reichstag.jpg" title="Brandenburg Gate Berlin 1945" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>How the mighty fell. A forlorn Brandenburg Gate stands witness to how low the German people had fallen. Soviet soldiers walk around a destroyed German Panther tank in the foreground.</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CA9xePaSidU/UwMNOSTWIwI/AAAAAAAALDU/KkQwdvzdE0A/s1600/German-old-women-children-flee-west-1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="German people WW2 Berlin 1945" border="0" height="428" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CA9xePaSidU/UwMNOSTWIwI/AAAAAAAALDU/KkQwdvzdE0A/s1600/German-old-women-children-flee-west-1945.jpg" title="German people suffered as WW2 drew to a close" width="640" /></a></div><b>Old women and children suffered for no fault of theirs. Here helpless German women in a suburb of Berlin are fleeing from he east and trying to cross the River Elbe to the relative safety of American occupied Germany. The Red Army soldiers were raping women from 8 to 80 years old. Even the poor girl in the image must have been raped. What justice? Is man really civilised? One wonders at times like these.</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QrR20lKs0Vw/UwMO3ZozDsI/AAAAAAAALDg/810_TofMFps/s1600/Destroyed-Berlin-May-1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Berlin destroyed 1945" border="0" height="412" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QrR20lKs0Vw/UwMO3ZozDsI/AAAAAAAALDg/810_TofMFps/s1600/Destroyed-Berlin-May-1945.jpg" title="Devastated Berlin 1945" width="640" /></a></div><b>A devastated Berlin in May 1945. It had &nbsp;been half blown to bits by British and American bombers even before the Russians entered. The Red Army came and completed the job.</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Md5i5P2ujOE/UwMQKX4xxBI/AAAAAAAALDs/Mv4c0vVAiI4/s1600/surrendered-German-soldiers-Berlin-1945-may.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Md5i5P2ujOE/UwMQKX4xxBI/AAAAAAAALDs/Mv4c0vVAiI4/s1600/surrendered-German-soldiers-Berlin-1945-may.jpg" /></a></div><b>The most humiliated of Germans. Surrendered German soldiers being sent to camps by the Russians. These once proud men of the Wehrmacht not only faced defeat &nbsp;but also the additional ignominy of seeing German women raped by Russians in front of them.</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tpWkNitYhDo/UwMTZBjx1MI/AAAAAAAALD4/sPgfLvIOlsM/s1600/German-women-raped-Berlin-1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Berlin women raped 1945" border="0" height="418" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tpWkNitYhDo/UwMTZBjx1MI/AAAAAAAALD4/sPgfLvIOlsM/s1600/German-women-raped-Berlin-1945.jpg" title="Berlin women raped in 1945 WW2" width="640" /></a></div><b>German women on a Berlin street in end of May 1945. By then the mass rape was beginning to abate somewhat.</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NLwNUNH1_mI/UwRZPV8dsvI/AAAAAAAALEI/mpcW9wqxdH4/s1600/berlin-destroyed-1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="452" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NLwNUNH1_mI/UwRZPV8dsvI/AAAAAAAALEI/mpcW9wqxdH4/s1600/berlin-destroyed-1945.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>Apocalypse now. A city totally destroyed . It is a wonder how so many of its inhabitants managed to survive the savage fighting.</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dK9cFBLAunk/UwRaVIxMd7I/AAAAAAAALEU/cOfWTP93dq8/s1600/Berlin-women-May-1945-soviet-soldiers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sexual exploitation German women Red Army soldiers 1945" border="0" height="416" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dK9cFBLAunk/UwRaVIxMd7I/AAAAAAAALEU/cOfWTP93dq8/s1600/Berlin-women-May-1945-soviet-soldiers.jpg" title="Sexual exploitation German Women by Russian soldiers 1945" width="640" /></a></div><b>To survive is to be practical. Berlin women thought it best to socialise with the &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;enemy. Here German women chat with Red Army soldiers.</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aAkR1h3lIYQ/UwRbRYQcbWI/AAAAAAAALEc/W9bIlqPOfi8/s1600/Berlin-may-1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aAkR1h3lIYQ/UwRbRYQcbWI/AAAAAAAALEc/W9bIlqPOfi8/s1600/Berlin-may-1945.jpg" /></a></div><b>What happened to Hitler's "Survival of the fittest?". This old gentleman must have seen a lot of things he wished he had not.&nbsp;</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Slsfh4w6_dY/UwRciuDSZDI/AAAAAAAALEo/35Uf20n17fs/s1600/marshal-zhukov-reichstag-berlin-1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Zhukov Reichstag Berlin 1945" border="0" height="538" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Slsfh4w6_dY/UwRciuDSZDI/AAAAAAAALEo/35Uf20n17fs/s1600/marshal-zhukov-reichstag-berlin-1945.jpg" title="Zhukov in the ruins of reichstag, Berlin 1945" width="640" /></a></div><b>The man of the moment. Marshal Zhukov emerges &nbsp;from the ruins of the Reichstag.</b><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bcaRRFOa7P0/UwRdbXCnu5I/AAAAAAAALEw/XWNQkVrHawc/s1600/Berlin-May-1945-destroyed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bcaRRFOa7P0/UwRdbXCnu5I/AAAAAAAALEw/XWNQkVrHawc/s1600/Berlin-May-1945-destroyed.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TUP8gm-r05k/UwReOI0kQqI/AAAAAAAALE4/LRxZX5fmpxM/s1600/Berlin-may-1945-wounded-soviet-soldier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="446" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TUP8gm-r05k/UwReOI0kQqI/AAAAAAAALE4/LRxZX5fmpxM/s1600/Berlin-may-1945-wounded-soviet-soldier.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>A blinded Russian soldier walks with the support of his comrade. 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This is the instinctive response most of you will give after reading the heading. It is understandable. The Battle of Khalkhin Gol does not find a mention in most history books.Why? Because it involved Russia. Most western historians tend underplay the contribution of Russia in defeating Nazi Germany.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">And the Battle of Khalkhin Gol cast a long shadow on how the Russo-German War during WW2 panned out.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">How?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Khalkhin Gol is a river which demarcated the boundary line between Mongolia, Soviet Union and Japanese occupied Manchuria. The year was 1939. The Japanese army in Manchukuo had designs on Soviet territory and trespassed the border now and again. Stalin wanted to erase the threat for good so he sent his best commander Georgy Zhukov, the same man who later led the Red Army as it destroyed the Nazi German army.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Zhukov in the ensuing Battle of Khalkhin Gol gave the Japanese army a thorough thrashing. The Japanese remembered the thrashing and did not attack Russia from the east when Hitler's army was sweeping through the country in 1941. In December 1941, as the Germans inched towards Moscow, Stalin got a confirmation from his spy in Tokyo,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sorge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Sorge</a>, &nbsp;that Japan was not going to attach the Soviet Union despite German requests.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">This allowed him to strip his eastern troops and threw them against the advancing Germans. As we all know the Germans were pushed back steadily from Moscow.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The importance of the Battle of Khalkhin Gol is that if Zhukov had not given the Japanese a hiding in the battle, Japan might have been tempted to attack the Soviet Union in 1941 from the east. The result of the Battle of Moscow might have been different. Russia might have collapsed then under the assault from the west and east.....And may be Hitler might have won the Second World War.....</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gO4dG1M-HqA/UmYfKAR6naI/AAAAAAAAK_Q/S03_LdNxqTY/s1600/Zhukov-battle-khalkhin-gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Zhukov Khalkhin Gol" border="0" height="470" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gO4dG1M-HqA/UmYfKAR6naI/AAAAAAAAK_Q/S03_LdNxqTY/s640/Zhukov-battle-khalkhin-gol.jpg" title="Zhukov with commanders during the Battle of Khalkhin Gol" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Zhukov with his commanders during the Battle of Khalkhin Gol</span></b></div></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YT6l6PlgYkU/UmYkWTOrwuI/AAAAAAAAK_0/cO37x4I4c0I/s1600/Khalkhin-gol-battle-map.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="562" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YT6l6PlgYkU/UmYkWTOrwuI/AAAAAAAAK_0/cO37x4I4c0I/s640/Khalkhin-gol-battle-map.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U5FhzFw8TPQ/UmYhj2vMgeI/AAAAAAAAK_c/ns8sLNKY7FA/s1600/battle-khalkhin-gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="520" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U5FhzFw8TPQ/UmYhj2vMgeI/AAAAAAAAK_c/ns8sLNKY7FA/s640/battle-khalkhin-gol.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YluFRmavQvY/Umjm7QHyKgI/AAAAAAAALAE/qpwpPzZ_8Dw/s1600/Khalkhin-gol-battle-Zhukov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YluFRmavQvY/Umjm7QHyKgI/AAAAAAAALAE/qpwpPzZ_8Dw/s640/Khalkhin-gol-battle-Zhukov.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The perfect commander: Zhukov with his men at Khalkhin Gol</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LhmneYK7a-A/UmjoepjGEaI/AAAAAAAALAM/wTDmoZPOaSA/s1600/Battle-Khalkhin-Gol-T-26-tank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LhmneYK7a-A/UmjoepjGEaI/AAAAAAAALAM/wTDmoZPOaSA/s640/Battle-Khalkhin-Gol-T-26-tank.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Russian tank men with their T-26 tank</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XucgUaOGsaI/Umjp2uI66WI/AAAAAAAALAY/cR26fDP-Hpw/s1600/Khalkhin-Gol-Battle-Polikarpov-I-16-Soviet-fighter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="470" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XucgUaOGsaI/Umjp2uI66WI/AAAAAAAALAY/cR26fDP-Hpw/s640/Khalkhin-Gol-Battle-Polikarpov-I-16-Soviet-fighter.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The Soviet &nbsp;Polikarpov I 16 fighter plane at Khalkhin Gol. It was badly hammered by the German Messerschmidt later during Barbarossa. Notice in the image that the plane's wing is damaged.</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t3jziTZNPAk/Umjrmp-WPZI/AAAAAAAALAk/KamDIaanJV8/s1600/Soviet-pow-head-shaved-japanese-barbers-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t3jziTZNPAk/Umjrmp-WPZI/AAAAAAAALAk/KamDIaanJV8/s640/Soviet-pow-head-shaved-japanese-barbers-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" width="630" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Soviet POW get their shaved by Japanese barbers. All this appears very civilised in contrast to the upcoming Russo-German war of 1941.</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZJpyAbpLCHA/Umjsp0qaMVI/AAAAAAAALAs/EZainN3_Wfc/s1600/Soviet-POW-dinner-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="460" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZJpyAbpLCHA/Umjsp0qaMVI/AAAAAAAALAs/EZainN3_Wfc/s640/Soviet-POW-dinner-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Soviet POW have dinner as a Japanese guard looks on benignly</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Bn89379_pE/Umjtag0XBeI/AAAAAAAALA0/TF1htkFUkwM/s1600/Battle-Khalkhin-Gol-Japanese-soldiers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="542" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Bn89379_pE/Umjtag0XBeI/AAAAAAAALA0/TF1htkFUkwM/s640/Battle-Khalkhin-Gol-Japanese-soldiers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>A Japanese officer watched as the Battle of Khalkhin Gol progresses</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fXmcWKKP8iY/Umjub2t-_6I/AAAAAAAALA8/V_4Gy0-e4kU/s1600/Japanese-cavalrymen-feed-horses-Battle-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fXmcWKKP8iY/Umjub2t-_6I/AAAAAAAALA8/V_4Gy0-e4kU/s640/Japanese-cavalrymen-feed-horses-Battle-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Japanese cavalrymen feed their horses</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QqaSC2b_78A/UmjvWPPx9NI/AAAAAAAALBE/sFlynB42wvo/s1600/Soviet-soldier-Battle-Khalkhin-Gol-200mm-Japanese-Anti-tank-gun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QqaSC2b_78A/UmjvWPPx9NI/AAAAAAAALBE/sFlynB42wvo/s640/Soviet-soldier-Battle-Khalkhin-Gol-200mm-Japanese-Anti-tank-gun.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>A Russian officer examines a captured Japanese 20mm anti-tank gun</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nookN_Q2kYo/UmjwrjgM40I/AAAAAAAALBM/ZipEQEE_244/s1600/Nakajima-Ki-27-Japanese-fighter-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="412" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nookN_Q2kYo/UmjwrjgM40I/AAAAAAAALBM/ZipEQEE_244/s640/Nakajima-Ki-27-Japanese-fighter-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Russian soldiers examine a downed Japanese Nakajima Ki 27 fighter plane. The Ki-27 was as much a relic as the Soviet I-16. The two were a good match against each other.</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X9FiC8ug9RE/UmjyKK2xnJI/AAAAAAAALBU/HmDQFpnsw9c/s1600/Red-army-soldiers-armored-car-BA-20-Battle-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="342" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X9FiC8ug9RE/UmjyKK2xnJI/AAAAAAAALBU/HmDQFpnsw9c/s640/Red-army-soldiers-armored-car-BA-20-Battle-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Red Army soldiers stand beside their BA 20 armored car to watch an air battle at Khalkhin Gol</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fe8J5P8i0Yk/UmogolED7hI/AAAAAAAALBk/D4SYvjSEv3c/s1600/Japanese-troops-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="482" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fe8J5P8i0Yk/UmogolED7hI/AAAAAAAALBk/D4SYvjSEv3c/s640/Japanese-troops-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The Japanese move forward. Khalkhin Gol. August, 1939</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WtVfWgS3Qtg/UmogurxUM3I/AAAAAAAALBs/fk9ykxCJJwo/s1600/Japanese-yigo-tanks-mongolia-1939-battle-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="448" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WtVfWgS3Qtg/UmogurxUM3I/AAAAAAAALBs/fk9ykxCJJwo/s640/Japanese-yigo-tanks-mongolia-1939-battle-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Japanese <a href="http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/jap/Type_89_I-Go.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yi-GO</a> tanks roll on the Mongolian steppes</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1unQoddKpoQ/UmojqLSxUMI/AAAAAAAALB0/0UfBGysPVr4/s1600/Japanese-gunners-fire-Battle-of-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1unQoddKpoQ/UmojqLSxUMI/AAAAAAAALB0/0UfBGysPVr4/s640/Japanese-gunners-fire-Battle-of-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">&nbsp;A Japanese machine gun fires</span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w728PyZNhbc/Umojtb7CZ1I/AAAAAAAALB8/8lFzthdu5I0/s1600/Japanese-priosoner-of-war-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="434" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w728PyZNhbc/Umojtb7CZ1I/AAAAAAAALB8/8lFzthdu5I0/s640/Japanese-priosoner-of-war-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">&nbsp;Japanese POW</span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-65s2dmEPpyM/Umoj1LEIcDI/AAAAAAAALCM/6Q1POfNFK14/s1600/Mongolian-soldiers-Battle-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-65s2dmEPpyM/Umoj1LEIcDI/AAAAAAAALCM/6Q1POfNFK14/s640/Mongolian-soldiers-Battle-Khalkhin-Gol.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Mongolian troops at Khalkhin Gol</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rCmlJwUjiMQ/Umoj4V3YC2I/AAAAAAAALCU/-t93pP95wwc/s1600/Soviet-flag-Khalkhin-Gol-Battle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rCmlJwUjiMQ/Umoj4V3YC2I/AAAAAAAALCU/-t93pP95wwc/s1600/Soviet-flag-Khalkhin-Gol-Battle.jpg" /></a></div><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">&nbsp;The Soviet flag flies at Khalkhin Gol</span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LHqX_kuDutA/Umoj7zp00wI/AAAAAAAALCc/sbAdKEwSK6M/s1600/Soviet-Mongolian-soldiers-Khalkhin_gol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="413" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LHqX_kuDutA/Umoj7zp00wI/AAAAAAAALCc/sbAdKEwSK6M/s640/Soviet-Mongolian-soldiers-Khalkhin_gol.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Soviet and Mongolian soldiers take position</b></span></div><br /><i>Suggested Reading</i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_xnzfJrH3fE/UmomomCrY4I/AAAAAAAALCk/2FouaOH-p6k/s320/KHALKHIN-GOL-NOMONHAN-STUART.jpg" width="213" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591143292/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=incrwarimag-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1591143292&amp;adid=0ZZNMD42TKYBZ5NJ7FYM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II by Stuart D. Goldman</a></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This book explains the neglected story of Japan's ill-fated attack on Soviet Russia in 1939. After their ignominious defeat at the hands of the Russians the Japanese avoided further conflict with them at all costs. A very detailed study (with good battle descriptions), which also connects Japan's reluctance to attack the Soviets with the momentous Russian decision to thwart Hitler's drive on Moscow in 1941 by using the recently victorious eastern Russian army as a last ditch reserve. This was made possible when Stalin finally realized that he had nothing to fear from Japan after their drubbing by his men in 1939.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-----------------------------------</span></span></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-20161836698670736862012-12-18T23:06:00.001-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.110-07:00The Spanish Civil War Simplified<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B6jwpjg4E1U/UNFdUaJ3PNI/AAAAAAAAKsc/AEIP7gsQzvY/s1600/Nationalist-fighter-throws-grenade-at-Government-soldiers-Burgos-September-12-1936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><img alt="Spanish Civil War" border="0" height="452" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B6jwpjg4E1U/UNFdUaJ3PNI/AAAAAAAAKsc/AEIP7gsQzvY/s640/Nationalist-fighter-throws-grenade-at-Government-soldiers-Burgos-September-12-1936.jpg" title="Spanish Civil war" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Nationalist fighter throws a grenade at Government soldiers at Burgos. September 12, 1936</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Spanish Civil War began with a military coup. There was a long history of military intervention in Spain’s political life. But the coup of 17–18 July 1936 was an old instrument being used for a new purpose. It aimed to halt the mass political democracy set in train by the effects of the First World War and the Russian Revolution,and accelerated by the ensuing social, economic, and cultural changes of the 1920s and 1930s. In this sense, the military rising against Spain’s democratic Second Republic was the equivalent of the fascist takeovers that followed the coming to power of Mussolini in Italy (1922) and Hitler in Germany (1933) and which were also designed to control similar manifestations of social, political, and cultural change.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">THE CAUSES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Spanish Civil war occurred in 1936 and directly caused because of the take-over of the power by the General Franco. However it’s a reality that this civil war had been prepared for years before that: since the Spain lost its monarchy, the government had been unstable and troubled. During the 18th and the 19th centuries, Spain lost its great empire and its old prestige. The Spanish people were annoyed with that and they accused the monarchy. Consequently the Queen Isabella II was deposed. The First Spanish Republic was established. However this Republic was not stable. In 1875, after a military rising, a descendant of the monarchy became King; but it was a constitutional monarchy.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next Kings ruled in a more and more democratic way. The Spanish parliament was called the<i>Cortes</i>. Every men grown-up had the right of vote in the general elections. However, the Spain had difficulties with its colonies in Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. The Spanish felt humiliated by their lost, in consequence they tried to seized Morocco, but it was a disaster : the local population resisted harshly and caused a lot of trouble. The Spanish were defeated in 1921.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The General Promo de Rivera caused lots of problems in Spain and contributed to warm the atmosphere. In fact he seized the power with the help of the King and of the army. He governed for seven years. He was an authoritative man and he demanded strict army discipline. Moreover he was farer of the Democracy than the Royal old regime: he did not care of the&nbsp;<i>Cortes</i>&nbsp;and closed it down. All political parties were banned.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1930 the World Crisis hit the Spain as well as the other country and it had economic difficulties. Primo de Rivera did not get on with the King and he had lost popularity, so he had to resign. In 1931 there were municipal elections and the Republicans won a majority.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There were a lot of specific problems to Spain. One of the most important was the importance of the division among many parts of the country. The regionalism was important, it means that people felt they belonged to one part of the Spain, on region, but not the whole country. They thought they should self-rule and did not want to have a united country. For example the people of Aragon had to promise loyalty to the King of Spain but they showed very little enthusiasm and they swore in a rather blurred way. The Separatism in Spain can be explicated to the divisions due to history and geography. Another example: The Basque Separatists wanted to preserve their own culture. They obtained independence in 1936. Catalonia had its own Parliament. The Catalans felt as a separated culture. They obtained a Statue of Autonomy in 1932.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There were two kings of lands for agriculture in Spain; the latifundia and the minifundias. The first ones were great and owned by wealthy people and poor peasants were hired to cultivate them. But they were paid a misery so there were an enormous amounts of poor labourers in Spain in the 19320s: about 2,500,000. The second ones were fund mainly in Catalonia and Valencia. There were small farms and were too miserable to feed a family. The poor conditions of life led to agrarian violence. It’s an explication for the popularity of the communism among the poor: they promised them land, food and equality.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another problem of the country was the power of the Church. The Catholic Church was very wealthy, so it took the side of the rich in the arguments. It was a conservative institution. Consequently, except in the Basques region, the Clergy became unpopular among the workers, who joined communist and anarchist groups. The Church was the symbol of the gap between rich and poor.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Army was too a conservative institution. It was fond of the old way of life and their officer came from aristocracy. It was too used to suppress the restless peasants. The&nbsp;<i>Civil</i>&nbsp;<i>Guard</i>&nbsp;was charged of that. A short-term cause of the Civil war was the decision of the Army to oppose the left-wing government.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The arguments between the left and the right were frequent and were a source of division in Spain. The main conservative party was the Catholic one and led the opposition to the government. His leader, Gil Robles, publicly expressed his admiration for the Nazis.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Nationalist Bloc had for leader Calvo Sotelo and was a coalition of Monarchists, Fascists and other people of the right-wing. They wanted to fight the spread of communism and anarchism. The members of the left-wing were called the Republicans and favoured a constitutional democracy and it was led by Manuel Azana. The Socialist party wanted to change Spain by peaceful and democratic ways. The Communists and the Anarchists were members of the right-wing. Their main leader was Dolores Ibarruri, a great orator. The Anarchist aimed to destroy the government. Their leader was Buenventura Durruti.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The most preoccupant problem of the Spain was the terrible situation of the landless peasants. A law was written: The Agrarian Law, in 1932, obtained land for peasants but it applied in very few areas. The government became impopular. The next elections provided right-wing government. Under the new government the last reforms were repealed. A military dictatorship was feared but the left-wing. Strikes and demonstrations occurred which were took over control violently by the general Franco.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A coalition of the left-wing formed in 1936 a popular front. They won the elections in</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1936. They wanted to introduce reforms and to reduce the strikes by giving land to peasants, but it was to late: many people took lands for themselves by force, churches were burned and disorder widespread.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">An army revolt was again feared, because the generals worried about collapse of law and order. The general Franco and other Generals decided in secret to make a coup d’état against the government of the “Godless republic”. The leader of the Monarchists party was assassinated, that decided them to act.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Civil War began few days later. The Army defeated the left-wing republican forces, and the war lasted six years.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In conclusion, the Spanish Civil War did not happened in a short moment but the weakness of the regimes, the intense feeling of not-belonging, the division between rich and poor, right and left, Church and workers and the extreme poverty of most of the population created bad conditions and agitation in the whole country. The Army was the main mean to take the power and the officers and generals were powerful, that’s why such an insurrection had been possible. Finally, even if the Civil war had been bloody and the General Franco was not fond of liberty and democracy, he succeeded afterward to achieve a stable government.</span></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"></table></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L_sat4Ajb9c/UNFw62AVhAI/AAAAAAAAKyU/d5mhFattOuI/s1600/Spanish-Civil-War.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><img alt="Spanish civil war in brief map diagram" border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L_sat4Ajb9c/UNFw62AVhAI/AAAAAAAAKyU/d5mhFattOuI/s640/Spanish-Civil-War.jpg" title="Spanish civil war map in brief" width="568" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Spanish Civil war in brief. (Click on image to enlarge)</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">---------------------------------------</b></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;">1930-31:</b><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Primo de Rivera was forced to resign in 1930. Elections were held and the Republicans won a landslide, so in 1931 King Alfonso XIII abdicated.</span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1931-33:</b>&nbsp;A Left Wing government ruled Spain with Azana the key figure.</span></div><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1933-36</b>: A Right-Wing government ruled Spain, with Robles the key figure.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"></span><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1936:</b>&nbsp;A Left Wing Popular Front government ruled Spain, led by Azana.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"></span><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1936:</b>&nbsp;A Right-Wing rebellion started the Spanish Civil War, led by Franco.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;">--------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-size: large;">BACKGROUND TO THE CIVIL WAR</span></td></tr></tbody></table><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Spain’s Second Republic was born, and survived, in discouraging international circumstances: the Great Depression corroding Europe’s economies and societies;Hitler extinguishing Weimar pluralism and challenging the European status quo; a brutal ‘revolution from above’ in the USSR; and, in Mussolini’s Italy, a corporate state which bound together workers and managers, ostensibly for the national good. To many in Spain, such developments were healthy, a precedent to be followed.</span></i><br /><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Between its birth in April 1931 and March 1939 when its last Prime Minister, Juan Negrín, fell from power, the Second Republic experienced fifteen changes of government. This in itself, however, says nothing specific of individual government tenure, one criterion for ‘stability’. Azaña’s first stint as Prime Minister, from October 1931, lasted nearly two years;at the other extreme, in July 1936 the government of Martínez Barrio survived for barely twelve hours. Of the eleven peacetime governments,eight lasted for six months or less. Add to this the political, social and economic ‘wars’ already being waged by interest groups all over Spain against these governments (let alone each other) by strikes, propaganda,obstruction and insurrection, and it may seem remarkable not only that anything significant was achieved but that civil war was delayed for so long. At times, Spain seemed locked into a vortex of instability.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>In a democratic environment, what does political stability require?More than an origin based on consensus, which in April 1931 the Republic seemed superficially to have, it needs even-handedness and political subtlety. But these, unlike anxiety and disillusionment, were in short supply. For every newspaper banned, there was an inflammatory speech in the Cortes or at a party rally; for every politician imprisoned, an intimidating parade or debilitating strike. In turn, state attempts to restore equilibrium by force were often counter-productive. Indeed, the theme of provocation is woven throughout the Second Republic. There was readiness to provoke and to be provoked. When, in October 1934,ministers from the Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rightist&nbsp;Groups (CEDA) joined Lerroux’s government, ‘the Socialists [took] the bait and launched a hopeless assault on the state’, the most dramatic example being the Asturias Rising and subsequent commune which held out for two weeks before being crushed.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i></i></span><br /></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The self-interest and self-image of groups and institutions were not only hurt by single-issue reforms aimed by the state directly at them.For example, the army was also antagonistic towards Catalan autonomy because it would destroy the unity of the Patria.</i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i></i></span></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Similarly, the Church was deeply anxious about land reform and the new politics: CEDA, the Church’s political wing, described the ‘atheistic’ Republic as a communist class dictatorship hostile to the family, private property and the free market.</i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i></i></span></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i></i></span></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>When centrifugal forces were at work concurrently, then chronic instability would follow. In 1933–4 both CEDA on the right and disillusioned Socialists on the left, led by Largo Caballero, were becoming more anti-constitutional in outlook. For the left this process had already begun in 1931, when its more radical elements felt that their idealized‘new Spain’ was being sold out to compromise. The right countered with accusations that the old Spain was being subverted by revolutionary reform.&nbsp;</i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i></i></span></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i></i></span></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Indeed, much venom was spat at the governments of the Second Republic: that they were more like pressure groups than governments,that their leaders were agitators not statesmen, that their law-enforcement was lawless and that they were led by their followers. And however decisively governments introduced reform, or reneged on it or repealed it, outcry was certain: from those who sought more change(Socialist, Communist or anarchist) and those who wanted no progressive legislation at all – army, Church and landowners, great and small.</i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i></i></span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LWMWjP81-0s/UNFYmSboINI/AAAAAAAAKrA/I7_BB7YEhYo/s1600/Falangist-militia-Madrid-Battle-May-1936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Franco's Falangist militia Battle of Madrid. July 30, 1936" border="0" height="432" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LWMWjP81-0s/UNFYmSboINI/AAAAAAAAKrA/I7_BB7YEhYo/s640/Falangist-militia-Madrid-Battle-May-1936.jpg" title="Franco's Falangist militia during the Battle of Madrid. July 30, 1936" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Franco's Falangist militia during the Battle of Madrid. July 30, 1936</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><div style="font-family: arial;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;">THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: HOW IT BEGAN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;">▪ The Republican government granted Catalan autonomy,much to the disgust of the Right.▪ The Agrarian Reform Law allowed the state to nationalise the latifundiaand then hand them over to the peasants;however, compensating the landowners was complicated and expensive, and the government was divided on the issue of collectivisation and so, it was never implemented on a large scale. As a result it angered the landowners yet disappointed the peasants too.▪ Primo’s Labour Arbitration Scheme was extended and improved with the help of the UGT, which trebled its membership during this period.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;">▪ The Jesuits were dissolved, the state withdrew subsidies to the Church, civil marriage was permitted,divorce was allowed and Prime Minister Azana, well-known for being direct and honest (or insensitive and arrogant, depending on your perspective), said “all the convents in Madrid are not worth the life of a single Republican”.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;">▪ Half of the officer corps were pressed into retirement at full pay (leaving little money for social reform); Azana told the army they had no right to challenge the government; a military revolt by General Sanjuro in 1932 was crushed.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large;">▪ The government’s measures led to the foundation of the right-wing Catholic CEDA party led by Gil Robles. At the same time a fascist party – the Falange (Phalanx) - was established by the son of Primo de Rivera, Jose Antonio.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">In 1933 government troops shot dead anarchist prisoners in Cadiz. This precipitated a crisis that led to elections being called for November 1933.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">▪ A right-wing coalition government assumed power after the elections. It reversed the process of reform and cancelled the measures against the Church.The period from 1933 to 1935 became known as the “ two black years ” by those on the Left, who became divided between socialists (led by Prieto ) who favoured involvement with the coalition and those of the UGT (led by Caballero) who favoured violent opposition to it.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">▪ In 1934 opposition to the reactionary government exploded into outright violence in the Asturias Uprising : an anarchist miners’ revolt lasting two weeks which was only suppressed with difficulty by the troops of General Franco, who became known as the "Butcher of Asturias". Mass arrests followed (even Azana was briefly arrested), left wing newspapers were closed and the Catalan Autonomy Statute was suspended.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">▪ The Asturias Uprising was “a watershed in the history of the Republic”(Knight). It pushed the Left (especially the UGT of Caballero, the ‘Spanish Lenin’)towards a more revolutionary position, and convinced the Right that the Fascism promoted by Rivera’s Falange was the only means of controlling the workers.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">▪ The international situation strongly influenced this polarising trend: the growing power of Fascism and Communism in Europe convinced many on both sides of the political spectrum that a moderate political stance would mean disaster. The Countdown to War&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">▪ In 1936 an election was called.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">▪ A Popular Front of Communists, Socialists, Republicans and Separatists was formed to oppose the government. The right wing formed the National Front</span><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">.Increasing tension meant that the Left now regarded the Right as Fascists; the Right regarded the Left as Communists.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">▪ The Popular Front won only slightly more votes than the National Front, but the voting system transformed this into a decisive majority of seats in Parliament.▪ However, Caballero’s socialists, still bitter about the failures of Azana’s earlier government, refused to join. This weakened not only the government but also the Left wing of Spanish politics as a whole.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">▪ Despite these problems, the new government immediately reintroduced the reforms of the 1931-3 government, banned the Falange and posted Franco to Morocco to keep him out of the picture.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">▪ Disorder and political violence spread throughout the country.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">▪ The anarchist CNT encouraged the peasants to take over the land;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">▪ The socialist UGT called a general strike among the &nbsp;proletariat&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">▪ The fascist Falange started to grow dramatically.▪ Most seriously, the army began plotting to overthrow the ineffectual new government. The leader of the plot was General</span><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">Mola</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">.▪ On the 13th of July the monarchist politician, Calvo Sotelo, was assassinated by Republican police in revenge for the murder of one of their men by a Falangist. The military now had the perfect pretext to make their move. The revolt began on the 17th of July in Spanish Morocco – led by Franco.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">GERMANY'S FEARS</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Germany could not tolerate a Communist Spain under any circumstances. As a National Socialist [Hitler] had the obligation to do everything to prevent that eventuality . . . If a Communist Spain actually does emerge, in view of the current situation in France the Bolshevisation of that country is only a matter of a short time and then Germany can ‘pack up’ [<i>einpacken</i>]. Hemmed in between the powerful Soviet bloc in the East and a strong Franco-Spanish communist bloc in the West we could hardly do anything, if Moscow decides to act against Germany.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">----------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Hermann Goering, Nuremburg Trials, 1946</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">When the civil war broke out in Spain, Franco sent a call for help to Germany . . . The Fuhrer thought the matter over. I urged him to give support under all circumstances, firstly in order to prevent the further spread of communism in that theater, and secondly to test my young Luftwaffe at this opportunity in this or that technical respect. With the permission of the Fuhrer I sent a large part of my transport fleet and a number of experimental fighters, bombers, and anti-aircraft guns; and in that way I had an opportunity to ascertain, under combat conditions, whether the material was equal to the task. In order that the personnel, too, might gather a certain amount of experience, I saw to it that there was a continuous flow,that is, that new people were constantly being sent and others recalled.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">GERMANY AND ITALY'S REASONS FRO INTERVENING IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In intervening in the civil war in Spain both the Italians and Germans were highly motivated by ideological, strategic and economic considerations but it was the first of these that initially drove their intervention and sustained it thereafter. The common struggle against Bolshevism, above all preventing a victorious communist republic emerging from the Spanish conflict, with its consequent encouragement for international communism and its negative ramifications for the advance of fascism in Europe.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BwFOCI-W7wM/UNFZb1d4XXI/AAAAAAAAKrI/V4ruzjX7h4k/s1600/Soldiers-14th-International-Brigade-People-Army-1937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Spanish civil war 14th International Brigade Republicans 1937" border="0" height="524" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BwFOCI-W7wM/UNFZb1d4XXI/AAAAAAAAKrI/V4ruzjX7h4k/s640/Soldiers-14th-International-Brigade-People-Army-1937.jpg" title="During Spanish civil war the 14th International Brigade fighting for the Republicans. 1937" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The 14th International Brigade fighting for the Republicans. 1937. </b>The 14th International Brigade was one of several international brigades that fought for the Spanish Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War. It was raised on 20 December 1936 with volunteers mainly from France and Belgium, under General "Walter" (Karol Świerczewski). This Brigade was the fourth of the international brigades, and it mixed veterans with new, idealistic volunteers. It was formally named the Marseillaise Brigade, after the French revolutionary song. After the Nationalist strategic victory in the Battle of Brunete (6–25 July 1937), heavy losses reduced the brigade strength from four to two battalions. However, the brigade lived on and was able to take part in the last Republican offensive of the war. As with all of the volunteer international brigades, the members of the XIV International Brigade faced a dark future after the eventual Nationalist victory.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The military insurrection broke out on July 18, 1936.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Two weeks later the rebels were in possession of a brand-new air-fleet of German and Italian planes, manned by German and Italian pilots, mechanics and instructors; Italian tanks were already in action at Badajoz; Irun was being bombarded by German heavy artillery . . .Technicians also were pouring into the country . . .</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Italian regular troops landed in Majorca: and by the end of October this largest of the Balearic Islands had become virtually an Italian possession. Week by week the number of foreigners in the rebel army grew.On November 18, by which time the capital and three fifths of Spain were in the hands of the constitutionally elected Government,Germany and Italy proclaimed General Franco ruler of Spain.During the winter months of 1936–7, Italy landed 85–90,000 infantry in Spain, while Germany took over various specialised technical functions in the rebel army: motor transport, tanks and anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, coastal batteries, and heavy artillery.On February 9, 1937, the Italians captured Malaga . . .The Spanish War is for the dictatorships in many respects a dress rehearsal for the world war for which it is preparing the way</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Vwxnx-It4vU/UNAb_STwuWI/AAAAAAAAKqY/uzIRpaqXeTU/s1600/Republican-soldiers-Spanish-Civil-War.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Vwxnx-It4vU/UNAb_STwuWI/AAAAAAAAKqY/uzIRpaqXeTU/s1600/Republican-soldiers-Spanish-Civil-War.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Republican soldiers</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE WEAKNESS OF THE SPANISH REPUBLIC</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Between its birth in April 1931 and March 1939 when its last Prime Minister, Juan Negrín, fell from power, the Second Republic experienced fifteen changes of government. This in itself, however, says nothing specific of individual government tenure, one criterion for ‘stability’. Azaña’s first stint as Prime Minister, from October 1931, lasted nearly two years;at the other extreme, in July 1936 the government of Martínez Barrio survived for barely twelve hours. Of the eleven peacetime governments,eight lasted for six months or less. Add to this the political, social and economic ‘wars’ already being waged by interest groups all over Spain against these governments (let alone each other) by strikes, propaganda,obstruction and insurrection, and it may seem remarkable not only that anything significant was achieved but that civil war was delayed for so long. At times, Spain seemed locked into a vortex of instability</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YbtK0Dq2vnM/UNAb8nE5YEI/AAAAAAAAKqM/SxOz-oSVt7Y/s1600/Armored-car-anarchists-catalonia-1936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YbtK0Dq2vnM/UNAb8nE5YEI/AAAAAAAAKqM/SxOz-oSVt7Y/s1600/Armored-car-anarchists-catalonia-1936.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>An armored car of the Anarchists. (</b><a href="http://struggle.ws/spain/pam_intro.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here for information of Anarchists during the Spanish Civil War</a><b>)</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE BRITISH RESPONSE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, speech in the House of Commons, 22nd February,1938</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Our policy has been consistently directed to one aim - to maintain the peace of Europe by confining the war to Spain. Although it is true that intervention has been going on and is going on, in spite of the Non-Intervention Agreement, yet it is also true that we have succeeded in achieving the object at the back of our policy, and we shall continue that object and policy as long as we feel there is reasonable hope of avoiding a spread of the conflict</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE SOVIET RESPONSE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Message from Soviet Union Defense Commissar Kliment Voroshilov to Stalin regarding support for the Republican government, September 1936</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"Preparing for dispatch 100 tanks, 387 specialists; sending 30 fighter aircraft without guns, and 15 planes fully equipped with crews and bombs. Ship to leave from Mexico for Cartagena, Spain.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">ITALY'S RESPONSE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mussolini's response to appeals for armed assistance from the Spanish insurgents following their failed military coup of 17-18 July 1936, which precipitated the civil war in Spain, was initially cautious. Only when he had assured himself, on the basis of reports from Italian diplomats, that neither France nor Britain nor Soviet Russia intended to intervene did the Italian dictator give the green light, on 27 July, for the dispatch of aircraft to assist in the airlift of pro-rebel Spanish Moroccan forces to the Spanish mainland and arms and munitions to those fighting in Spain. His decision to intervene was made in the expectation that a small amount of Italian war material would be decisive for the rebellion. It was based, partly at least, on Franco's personal assurances to</span></i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i></i></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">the Italian Minister Plenipotentiary, Pier Filippo de Rossi del Lion Nero, and his Military Attaché, Major Guiseppe Luccardi, that victory for the rebels would be certain and quick &nbsp;provided some outside assistance was forthcoming, and that with victory he intended to establish „a republican government in the fascist style adopted for the Spanish people.</span></i></div><i><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2E_j49F6f_g/UNAb-SLdNMI/AAAAAAAAKqU/giKtTRMusJc/s1600/Durutti-anarchists-spanish-civil-war.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Franco soldiers spanish civil war" border="0" height="590" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2E_j49F6f_g/UNAb-SLdNMI/AAAAAAAAKqU/giKtTRMusJc/s640/Durutti-anarchists-spanish-civil-war.jpg" title="Franco soldiers spanish civil war" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Franco's men</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">FROM &nbsp;</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1894000021?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=incrwarimag-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1894000021" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War</a>: An Armenian-Canadian in the Lincoln Battalion by D P Stephens</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Considering the political and military situation at the time, it might have appeared that the Franco forces (who called themselves the "nationalists") would encounter little sustained resistance, especially since almost from the outset the insurgents had military support from both Germany and Italy.That the Republican forces were able to maintain a three-year military effort against Franco was due in large part to an enormous international volunteer effort. By July 1937, one year after the outbreak of war, battalions of international volunteers had been formed, and over the course of the war some 40,000 volunteers from Germany, France, Russia, Great Britain, Poland, Hungary,Yugoslavia, Italy, the Balkans, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Albania, the United&nbsp;States, Canada,and elsewhere, poured into Spain to fight on the side of the republicans.The main organizational force behind this effort was the Communist International in Moscow, which undertook a major recruitment and transportation campaign. For committed communists, the war was an opportunity to put their political principles into action. For others, the Communist Party seemed to be the only major international force prepared to confront Franco, and the Party's recruitment campaign provided the means for participation. To many, regardless of their political beliefs, stopping Franco in Spain appeared crucial when one considered the implications of a fascist victory for the rest of Europe and the world, especially with the Hitler and Mussolini&nbsp;regimes increasing in both influence and aggression,</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bDjJTLqFoh0/UNFbXnUJmAI/AAAAAAAAKrs/eH8Z_Fh_clc/s1600/Spanish-civil-war-Italian-bombers-Savoy-Marchetti.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Italian bombers Spanish civil war" border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bDjJTLqFoh0/UNFbXnUJmAI/AAAAAAAAKrs/eH8Z_Fh_clc/s640/Spanish-civil-war-Italian-bombers-Savoy-Marchetti.jpg" title="Italian bombers Spanish civil war" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Bomber "Savoy Marchetti" with its Italian crew, accompanied by Fiat CR.32 fighters bombs Madrid. November 1936.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cf3IBmibnvk/UNFcZEA6gMI/AAAAAAAAKsQ/tMMKCgfItv0/s1600/Spanish-Nationalist-Forces-Central-Front-1937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Spanish Nationalist soldiers Civil war Central Front. 1937" border="0" height="468" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cf3IBmibnvk/UNFcZEA6gMI/AAAAAAAAKsQ/tMMKCgfItv0/s640/Spanish-Nationalist-Forces-Central-Front-1937.jpg" title="Spanish Nationalist soldiers on the Central Front. 1937" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Spanish Nationalist soldiers on the Central Front. 1937</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PmtksbRedEA/UNFeFdA6p3I/AAAAAAAAKs8/ktMpP981QzE/s1600/Italian-soldiers-Spain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Italian soldiers in Spain Spanish civil war" border="0" height="468" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PmtksbRedEA/UNFeFdA6p3I/AAAAAAAAKs8/ktMpP981QzE/s640/Italian-soldiers-Spain.jpg" title="Italian soldiers in Spain" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Italian soldiers in Spain</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WTrhF5HYufE/UNFe7Z99kFI/AAAAAAAAKtI/R3J4ApTZw-0/s1600/Stuka-Dive-Bombers-JU-87-Legion-Condor-Spain-May-30-1939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="German Stuka Dive Bomber JU 87 Spanish skies 1939 spanish civil war" border="0" height="432" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WTrhF5HYufE/UNFe7Z99kFI/AAAAAAAAKtI/R3J4ApTZw-0/s640/Stuka-Dive-Bombers-JU-87-Legion-Condor-Spain-May-30-1939.jpg" title="German Stuka Dive Bomber, the JU 87, flies in the Spanish skies in 1939" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">German Stuka Dive Bomber, the JU 87, flies in the Spanish skies in 1939</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KbW8-yJvfCo/UNFftsr1fOI/AAAAAAAAKts/7WIfkNr06Hk/s1600/Spanish-civil-War-refugees-French-border-1939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="500" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KbW8-yJvfCo/UNFftsr1fOI/AAAAAAAAKts/7WIfkNr06Hk/s640/Spanish-civil-War-refugees-French-border-1939.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Spanish refugees on the French border in 1939</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ggJpiOjN8ww/UNFglYbuCMI/AAAAAAAAKuQ/TBUtri_PBdQ/s1600/Madrid-December-3-1936-bombing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="454" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ggJpiOjN8ww/UNFglYbuCMI/AAAAAAAAKuQ/TBUtri_PBdQ/s640/Madrid-December-3-1936-bombing.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Madrid after being bombed on December 3, 1936</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7NJM7nR6g_k/UNFhUVc7BoI/AAAAAAAAKuw/UUeNgDnd2wA/s1600/Republican-soldiers-Brunete-Valentin-Gonzalez.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="458" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7NJM7nR6g_k/UNFhUVc7BoI/AAAAAAAAKuw/UUeNgDnd2wA/s640/Republican-soldiers-Brunete-Valentin-Gonzalez.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Republican soldiers at Brunete. On the left is the legendary Valentin Gonzalez. </b>Valentín González is mentioned in Ernest Hemingway's book<i> For Whom the Bell Tolls</i> through the thoughts of Robert Jordan, who described him as brave and tough, a man who "never knew when everything was lost and if it was he would fight out of it."</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v5AzVkGrJFo/UNFjOn8I76I/AAAAAAAAKvY/xQ_8Adq0Ims/s1600/Spanish-Civil-War-T-26-tank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Spanish civil war Republican soldier Soviet supplied T 26 tank." border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v5AzVkGrJFo/UNFjOn8I76I/AAAAAAAAKvY/xQ_8Adq0Ims/s640/Spanish-Civil-War-T-26-tank.jpg" title="The tanks of the rivals. A Republican soldier rides a Soviet supplied T 26 tank." width="507" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The tanks of the rivals. A Republican soldier rides a Soviet supplied T 26 tank.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tP4h96c0Hgs/UNFjP8hMFWI/AAAAAAAAKvc/JRxqQLk8Ztw/s1600/Spanish-civil-war-Panzer-1-tank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="440" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tP4h96c0Hgs/UNFjP8hMFWI/AAAAAAAAKvc/JRxqQLk8Ztw/s640/Spanish-civil-war-Panzer-1-tank.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Franco's Panzer 1 tank. </b>Converted &nbsp;German tank Pz.I - with an increased tower and a 20-mm cannon.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l4AqgIoK5RE/UNFkxSKxCuI/AAAAAAAAKwI/17l3_gcrihA/s1600/Spanis-civil-war-1936-surrendered-rebel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Spanish civil war captured rebel madrid 1936" border="0" height="462" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l4AqgIoK5RE/UNFkxSKxCuI/AAAAAAAAKwI/17l3_gcrihA/s640/Spanis-civil-war-1936-surrendered-rebel.jpg" title="Spanish civil war captured rebel madrid 1936" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A surrendered rebel led to a summary court-martial July 27, 1936 in Madrid.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bGV_-fOmxrY/UNFmeG2poYI/AAAAAAAAKww/28A8I1XAorI/s1600/German-Legion-Condor-tanks-Spain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="German tanks Legion Condor Spain civil war 1936-39" border="0" height="370" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bGV_-fOmxrY/UNFmeG2poYI/AAAAAAAAKww/28A8I1XAorI/s640/German-Legion-Condor-tanks-Spain.jpg" title="German tanks from the 'Legion Condor' in Spain" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">German tanks from the 'Legion Condor' in Spain</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nPnBReHUvLY/UNFmfs_n6hI/AAAAAAAAKw4/5zoKlMuEkAo/s1600/Spanish-Civil-War-T-26.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="458" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nPnBReHUvLY/UNFmfs_n6hI/AAAAAAAAKw4/5zoKlMuEkAo/s640/Spanish-Civil-War-T-26.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">T-26 tanks in Spain</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LR5ZD5BW-aU/UNFmgvLXRLI/AAAAAAAAKw8/D1inHPGig9A/s1600/Spanish-Civil-war-Women-being-trained.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Soldiers train women loyalists Barcelona Spanish Civil War. June 2, 1937." border="0" height="418" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LR5ZD5BW-aU/UNFmgvLXRLI/AAAAAAAAKw8/D1inHPGig9A/s640/Spanish-Civil-war-Women-being-trained.jpg" title="Soldiers train women loyalists how to fire a rifle to protect the city of Barcelona against fascist General Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. June 2, 1937." width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Soldiers train women loyalists how to fire a rifle to protect the city of Barcelona against fascist General Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. June 2, 1937.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-onfKkjiOzLs/UNP4nk5EbOI/AAAAAAAAKy8/VqEw7VvbXvY/s1600/Ernest-Hemingway-with-Republican-soldiers-Robert-Capa-Spain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Spanish civil war Ernest Hemingway Republican soldiers Aragon photo Robert Capa" border="0" height="482" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-onfKkjiOzLs/UNP4nk5EbOI/AAAAAAAAKy8/VqEw7VvbXvY/s640/Ernest-Hemingway-with-Republican-soldiers-Robert-Capa-Spain.jpg" title="Ernest Hemingway with Republican soldiers on the Aragon front in a photo by Robert Capa" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ernest Hemingway with Republican soldiers on the Aragon front in a photo by Robert Capa</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B0f_tp6FZQc/UNP4o1l-gbI/AAAAAAAAKzA/vsebCfZCnfc/s1600/Spanish-civil-war-rebel-gunners-with-German-trainers-Huesca-1936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="432" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B0f_tp6FZQc/UNP4o1l-gbI/AAAAAAAAKzA/vsebCfZCnfc/s640/Spanish-civil-war-rebel-gunners-with-German-trainers-Huesca-1936.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Rebel fighters with their German trainers at Huesca, northern Spain on December 30, 1936</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TN5trNBOPUU/UNP6ZoB12CI/AAAAAAAAKzs/zJ270HKe3xQ/s1600/Rebel-militia-Spain-July-1936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="442" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TN5trNBOPUU/UNP6ZoB12CI/AAAAAAAAKzs/zJ270HKe3xQ/s640/Rebel-militia-Spain-July-1936.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Rebel militia fighters. July 30, 1936. The man on the right is wearing a government army uniform. Probably changed sides.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OoVnfw-IrOI/UNP6bvPrQTI/AAAAAAAAKz0/XrbzcMRIbQU/s1600/Viva-Rusia-Glory-to-Russia-Spanish-civil-war.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OoVnfw-IrOI/UNP6bvPrQTI/AAAAAAAAKz0/XrbzcMRIbQU/s640/Viva-Rusia-Glory-to-Russia-Spanish-civil-war.jpg" width="470" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"Viva Rusia". "Glory to Russia". A graffiti on a wall in a Spanish town</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tfZhBKtG_hY/UNP9ewnvq0I/AAAAAAAAK0c/f7Skbl3osZc/s1600/Anarchist-CNT-receive+arms-Spain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="446" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tfZhBKtG_hY/UNP9ewnvq0I/AAAAAAAAK0c/f7Skbl3osZc/s640/Anarchist-CNT-receive+arms-Spain.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Anarchists, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Spain#The_rise_of_the_CNT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CNT</a> (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo), receive arms in 1936</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7nG7INRrMeI/UNP9g_t7-mI/AAAAAAAAK0k/YX7nTFW3O1Y/s1600/Battle-of-Alcazar-Toledo-1936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="484" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7nG7INRrMeI/UNP9g_t7-mI/AAAAAAAAK0k/YX7nTFW3O1Y/s640/Battle-of-Alcazar-Toledo-1936.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Battle of Alcazar. 1936.</b>&nbsp;The soldiers of the republican forces fighting for Alcazar of Toledo, in September 1936. Alcazar was a fortress at the highest point in Toledo. The fortress was defended by rebel colonel Jose Moskardo Ituarte and was almost completely destroyed by the troops of the Second Republic during the siege, which lasted 70 days from July 22 to September 28 in 1936. Participated in the siege of the forces and CNT-FAI UGT-PSOE, as well as assault guards.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dj0cGTh2zyE/UNP_YL1QnHI/AAAAAAAAK1M/ls26ZR-vGyE/s1600/Republican-troops-being-sent-to-front-Spanish-Civil-War.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="428" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dj0cGTh2zyE/UNP_YL1QnHI/AAAAAAAAK1M/ls26ZR-vGyE/s640/Republican-troops-being-sent-to-front-Spanish-Civil-War.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Republican troops being sent to the front</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2hOsIT3Comw/UNQCdYBvSHI/AAAAAAAAK10/U1evqu3yJCI/s1600/Madrid-bombed-preciados-street.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2hOsIT3Comw/UNQCdYBvSHI/AAAAAAAAK10/U1evqu3yJCI/s640/Madrid-bombed-preciados-street.jpg" width="462" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Preciados Street in Madrid ruined by bombing</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VJd0poE2GSg/UNQCethxWZI/AAAAAAAAK18/ZIT0-zcIsfs/s1600/Republican-soldiers-Teruel-1938.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="476" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VJd0poE2GSg/UNQCethxWZI/AAAAAAAAK18/ZIT0-zcIsfs/s640/Republican-soldiers-Teruel-1938.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Republican soldiers in Teruel, 1938</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U8ZHYCgW8jc/UNQCgGj2YWI/AAAAAAAAK2E/koFqXQ6hPJE/s1600/Women-Republican-soldiers-Spanish-Civil-War.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="520" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U8ZHYCgW8jc/UNQCgGj2YWI/AAAAAAAAK2E/koFqXQ6hPJE/s640/Women-Republican-soldiers-Spanish-Civil-War.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Women government soldiers</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--1QXXurC7Sw/UNQCqHX0TMI/AAAAAAAAK2M/Shl1WR1bWE8/s1600/An-elderly-man-quarrels-with-ayoung-woman-for-a-loaf-of-bread-Spain-1939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--1QXXurC7Sw/UNQCqHX0TMI/AAAAAAAAK2M/Shl1WR1bWE8/s640/An-elderly-man-quarrels-with-ayoung-woman-for-a-loaf-of-bread-Spain-1939.jpg" width="524" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">February 2, 1939. An elderly man quarrels with a young woman over a loaf of bread</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></b></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Fe6gZ0Lvano/UNQCy9wRjGI/AAAAAAAAK2U/38QdDdeNN2Y/s1600/Government-troops-cross-River-Ebro-1938.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="492" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Fe6gZ0Lvano/UNQCy9wRjGI/AAAAAAAAK2U/38QdDdeNN2Y/s640/Government-troops-cross-River-Ebro-1938.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Republican soldiers cross the River Ebro in 1938</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wpkyY_ggINw/UNQC0AQrN6I/AAAAAAAAK2c/ATcaf6H8DvE/s1600/Preparing-for-the-final-defense-Madrid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="486" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wpkyY_ggINw/UNQC0AQrN6I/AAAAAAAAK2c/ATcaf6H8DvE/s640/Preparing-for-the-final-defense-Madrid.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Preparation for the final defense of Madrid.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-size: large;">REFERENCES</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></b><b>1. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415182115?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=incrwarimag-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0415182115" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Spanish Civil War</a> by Andrew Forrest</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>2</b>.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1894000021?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=incrwarimag-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1894000021" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War</a>: An Armenian-Canadian in the Lincoln Battalion by <b>D. P. Stephens</b></span></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-62191789802718351182012-12-14T23:07:00.003-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.314-07:00Americans In India And China During WW2: A Pictorial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o83BhWTSrMI/UMwfFomEB-I/AAAAAAAAKlo/8JbduknDOP4/s1600/american-marines-Mars-burma-august-1944.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="518" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o83BhWTSrMI/UMwfFomEB-I/AAAAAAAAKlo/8JbduknDOP4/s640/american-marines-Mars-burma-august-1944.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">U.S. Marines from Task Force "Mars" are firing at the Japanese in Burma. August 1944.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iF1rLeNCllk/UMwa3KZyySI/AAAAAAAAKlQ/J4IlWgmL6nQ/s1600/American-B25-shot-down-china-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="438" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iF1rLeNCllk/UMwa3KZyySI/AAAAAAAAKlQ/J4IlWgmL6nQ/s640/American-B25-shot-down-china-ww2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Downed in China by Japanese anti-aircraft fire an American bomber B-25J Mitchell. May 25, 1945. </b>A B-25J-10-NC Mitchell "Jaunty Jo," SN# 43-36192 348th BG, 498th BS, 5th Air Force. She was struck by hidden antiaircraft battery just after dropping 250-pound parachute-retarded demolition bombs on the Byoritsu Alcohol Refinery in Formosa. The cockpit was torn open. Unfortunately only seconds later the plane crashed, killing all on board. Air crew: 2LT Robert J. Knauf, 2LT Martin H. Mulner, 1LT Lloyd E. Bodell, CPL Harold O. Montville, SGT Tennyson C. Harrell. The aircraft was one of 16 B-25s that were attempting to destroy the Japanese factories that process synthetic fuel from sugar cane. Byoritsu refinery was hit in March, May and July 1945.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4AsQlzlPrHo/UMwc0q-6t5I/AAAAAAAAKlY/tqpgZuczAl4/s1600/american-pilot-rescued-fighter-burma.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4AsQlzlPrHo/UMwc0q-6t5I/AAAAAAAAKlY/tqpgZuczAl4/s640/american-pilot-rescued-fighter-burma.jpg" width="555" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The evacuation of a American pilot, who suffered during a forced landing. Burma. 1944</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RkT7KUHI-EY/UMwdu03Y_5I/AAAAAAAAKlg/nH4DvvJIyRY/s1600/American-hells-angels-fighter-planes-1942.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="484" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RkT7KUHI-EY/UMwdu03Y_5I/AAAAAAAAKlg/nH4DvvJIyRY/s640/American-hells-angels-fighter-planes-1942.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Squadron "Hell's Angels" of the air group "Flying Tigers" in flight. May 28, 1942. </b>3rd Squadron Hell's Angels, Flying Tigers over China, photographed &nbsp;by AVG pilot Robert T. Smith.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KPxs3HwbuEc/UMwgevsRveI/AAAAAAAAKlw/E4TmX95a0ZQ/s1600/General-Stillwell-leaving-Burma-May-1942.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="488" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KPxs3HwbuEc/UMwgevsRveI/AAAAAAAAKlw/E4TmX95a0ZQ/s640/General-Stillwell-leaving-Burma-May-1942.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">General Stilwell leaves Burma. May 1942.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Arriving in Burma just in time to experience the collapse of the Allied defense of that country, which cut China off from all land and sea supply routes, <b>Stilwell</b> personally led his staff of 117 men and women out of Burma into Assam, India on foot, marching at what his men called the 'Stilwell stride' - 105 paces per minute.[17][18] Two of the men accompanying him, his aide Frank Dorn and the war correspondent, Jack Belden, wrote books about the walkout: Walkout with Stilwell in Burma (1971) and Retreat with Stilwell (1943), respectively. The Assam route was also used by other retreating Allied and Chinese forces.<br /><br />In India, Stilwell soon became well known for his no-nonsense demeanor and disregard for military pomp and ceremony. His trademarks were a battered Army campaign hat, GI shoes, and a plain service uniform with no insignia of rank; he frequently carried a .30 Springfield rifle in preference to a sidearm. His hazardous march out of Burma and his bluntly honest assessment of the disaster captured the imagination of the American public:<i> "I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.".</i> However, Stilwell's derogatory remarks castigating the ineffectiveness of what he termed Limey forces, a viewpoint often repeated by Stilwell's staff, did not sit well with British and Commonwealth commanders. However, it was well known among the troops that Stilwell's disdain for the British was aimed toward those high command officers that he saw as overly stuffy and pompous.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JXuKBVjSp7A/UM1dvH5M5pI/AAAAAAAAKmU/oa5mp7mLIrk/s1600/General-Stilwell-Burma-May-1942.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JXuKBVjSp7A/UM1dvH5M5pI/AAAAAAAAKmU/oa5mp7mLIrk/s1600/General-Stilwell-Burma-May-1942.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>General Stilwell in Burma on the way to India cleans his Thompson. May 1942. </b>The first step to fighting the war for Stilwell was the reformation of the Chinese Army. These reforms clashed with the delicate balance of political and military alliances in China, which kept the Generalissimo in power. Reforming the army meant removing men who maintained Chiang's position as commander-in-chief.While he gave Stilwell technical overall command of some Chinese troops, Chiang worried that the new American-led forces would become yet another independent force outside of his control. Since 1942, members of the Generalissimo's staff had continually objected to Chinese troops being used in Burma for the purpose, as they viewed it, of returning that country to British colonial control.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chiang therefore sided with General Claire Chennault's proposals that the war against the Japanese be continued largely using existing Chinese forces supported by air forces, something Chennault assured the Generalissimo was feasible. The dilemma forced Chennault and Stilwell into competition for the valuable Lend-Lease supplies arriving over the Himalayas from British-controlled India — an obstacle referred to as "The Hump". George Marshall, in his biennial report covering the period of July 1, 1943 to June 30, 1945, acknowledged he had given Stilwell "one of the most difficult" assignments of any theater commander.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9XMoLsCUnrI/UM1gnC674ZI/AAAAAAAAKm4/C61DujVd4F0/s1600/Chinese-soldier-American-P-40-Flying-Tigers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="482" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9XMoLsCUnrI/UM1gnC674ZI/AAAAAAAAKm4/C61DujVd4F0/s640/Chinese-soldier-American-P-40-Flying-Tigers.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A Chinese soldier guards American P 40 Fighter planes (Flying Tigers) in 1942</b>.<b>American volunteer units, AVG (American Volunteer groups) that fought on the side of China against the Japanese.</b></span><br /><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Of the pilots, 60 came from the Navy and Marine Corps and 40 from the Army Air Corps. (One army pilot was refused a passport because he had earlier flown as a mercenary in Spain, so only 99 actually sailed for Asia. Ten more army flight instructors were hired as check pilots for Chinese cadets, and several of these would ultimately join the AVG’s combat squadrons.) The volunteers were discharged from the armed services, to be employed for "training and instruction" by a private military contractor, the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company (CAMCO), which paid them $600 a month for pilot officer, $675 a month for flight leader, $750 for squadron leader (no pilot was recruited at this level), and about $250 for a skilled ground crewman, far more than they had been earning. ($675 translates to $10,666 in 2012 dollars, and at the time sufficed to buy a new Ford automobile.) The pilots were also orally promised a bounty of $500 for each enemy aircraft shot down.<br /><br /><b>Although sometimes considered a mercenary unit, the AVG was closely associated with the U.S. military. </b>Most histories of the Flying Tigers say that on 15 April 1941, President Roosevelt signed a "secret executive order" authorizing servicemen on active duty to resign in order to join the AVG. However, Flying Tigers historian Daniel Ford could find no evidence that such an order ever existed, and he argued that "a wink and a nod" was more the president's style. In any event, the AVG was organized and in part directed out of the White House, and by the spring of 1942 had effectively been brought into the U.S. Army chain of command.<br /><br />During the summer and fall 1941, some 300 men carrying civilian passports boarded ships destined for Burma. They were initially based at a British airfield in Toungoo for training while their aircraft were assembled and test flown by CAMCO personnel at Mingaladon airport outside Rangoon. Chennault set up a schoolhouse that was made necessary because many pilots had "lied about their flying experience, claiming pursuit experience when they had flown only bombers and sometimes much less powerful airplanes." They called Chennault "the Old Man" due to his much older age and leathery exterior obtained from years flying open cockpit pursuit aircraft in the Army Air Corps. Most believed that he had flown as a fighter pilot in China, although stories that he was a combat ace are probably apocryphal.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C_1nVdZdIcE/UM1jjnmr8KI/AAAAAAAAKng/o-sPcZLXTzM/s1600/American-trucks-in-India-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="428" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C_1nVdZdIcE/UM1jjnmr8KI/AAAAAAAAKng/o-sPcZLXTzM/s640/American-trucks-in-India-ww2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>American trucks in India. </b>Convoy of U.S. military vehicles (GMC CCKW-353 and one second-generation Dodge T214, known here as "Dodge three quarters") in India on the way to Burma.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--2V1cm5y7WI/UM1knnJ9M3I/AAAAAAAAKno/tcl_vZ8CiLE/s1600/American-soldiers-in-Burma-read-about-victory-in-Europe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="620" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--2V1cm5y7WI/UM1knnJ9M3I/AAAAAAAAKno/tcl_vZ8CiLE/s640/American-soldiers-in-Burma-read-about-victory-in-Europe.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">African-American soldiers in Burma read about the German surrender. May 9, 1945</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y01kOq6mQ18/UM1n4Noq2JI/AAAAAAAAKoM/YPlap7nTozM/s1600/American-instructor-checks-rifle-Chinese-soldiers-training-WW2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="438" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y01kOq6mQ18/UM1n4Noq2JI/AAAAAAAAKoM/YPlap7nTozM/s640/American-instructor-checks-rifle-Chinese-soldiers-training-WW2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>An American instructor checks of trainee Chinese soldiers. 1942. </b>The U.S. Army's main role in China was to keep China in the war through the provision of advice and materiel assistance. As long as China stayed in the war, hundreds of thousands of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers could be tied down on the Asian mainland instead of being used to fight on other fronts. Success was thus measured differently than in most theaters. How well both General Stilwell and General Wedemeyer persuaded the theater commander-in-chief, Generalissimo Chiang, to support U.S. strategic goals, and how effectively U.S. training and materiel support could build selected Chinese Army divisions into modern tactical units, capable of standing up to Japanese adversaries, were secondary objectives. What mattered most was simply keeping China in the war against Japan. The major U.S. failure in China was logistical: America was not able to meet its lend-lease commitments.<i> The closing of the Burma Road in 1942 made it impossible to deliver sufficient equipment, weapons, and munitions to build the dream of a well-equipped and trained thirty-division Chinese force.</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S5kyLppNYjw/UM1prfgp8QI/AAAAAAAAKoU/Nb5byJorb5o/s1600/American-soldier-Sneyder-talks-to-Indian-guide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S5kyLppNYjw/UM1prfgp8QI/AAAAAAAAKoU/Nb5byJorb5o/s640/American-soldier-Sneyder-talks-to-Indian-guide.jpg" width="612" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Captain James W. Snyder, Army intelligence officer, who was an historian in civilian life, with a veteran guide somewhere in India. The guide served in China during the Boxer rebellion. The ribbon he is wearing is for service with the late Lord Kitchener. He also served under Lord Roberts</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mKkEsBqnOuU/UM1rXEUe7EI/AAAAAAAAKoc/1Kd4hAMDLeM/s1600/American-soldiers-watch-funeral-india-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="American soldiers Agra, India 1942 ww2" border="0" height="434" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mKkEsBqnOuU/UM1rXEUe7EI/AAAAAAAAKoc/1Kd4hAMDLeM/s640/American-soldiers-watch-funeral-india-ww2.jpg" title="American soldiers watch a Hindu funeral in Agra, India in 1942" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">American soldiers watch a Hindu funeral in Agra, India &nbsp;in 1942</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Db_ZV7U4NMs/UM1sPvRAlWI/AAAAAAAAKok/3lhft11Cja0/s1600/American-actor-Joe-Brown-in-a-Chinese-city.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="518" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Db_ZV7U4NMs/UM1sPvRAlWI/AAAAAAAAKok/3lhft11Cja0/s640/American-actor-Joe-Brown-in-a-Chinese-city.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">American actor Joe Brown talks to children in a Chinese city. 1942.&nbsp;</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>The actor is driving a jeep on the street of one of the Chinese interacts with Chinese children. The photo was taken in 1942-1943. Joe Brown (1891-1973) is mainly known for his role of a passionate millionaire Osgood in the comedy "Some Like It Hot" (1959). During World War II, he could not enlist in the army because of his age, so he traveled at his own expense to the theater of war and spoke to American soldiers<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G2VQ_lg3kOc/UM1t9vqJkvI/AAAAAAAAKos/Z5713SBLOoA/s1600/American-generals-Stilwell-LeMay-B-29-airbase-China-1944.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="500" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G2VQ_lg3kOc/UM1t9vqJkvI/AAAAAAAAKos/Z5713SBLOoA/s640/American-generals-Stilwell-LeMay-B-29-airbase-China-1944.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">American generals Joseph Stilwell and Curtiss LeMay at a B 29 Bomber air base in China in 1944</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AV1GpgqJymI/UM1u-u-NgdI/AAAAAAAAKo4/O8i5yUHOSN0/s1600/American-army-training-babse-india-Ramgarh-1944.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="456" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AV1GpgqJymI/UM1u-u-NgdI/AAAAAAAAKo4/O8i5yUHOSN0/s640/American-army-training-babse-india-Ramgarh-1944.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">American technician 3rd Class Joe Rogers at the head of a column of Chinese soldiers at the gates of the Ramgarh training camp in Bihar India, June 1944.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WzfMT0KfI-s/UM1wlhygvvI/AAAAAAAAKpA/4O4pE_z_4Lk/s1600/American-soldiers-Kachin-Rangers-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="516" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WzfMT0KfI-s/UM1wlhygvvI/AAAAAAAAKpA/4O4pE_z_4Lk/s640/American-soldiers-Kachin-Rangers-ww2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The Kachin Rangers in Burma. The 1st SFG (Airborne) lineage can be traced to Detachment 101 of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). This unit raised and led a guerrilla force known as the Kachin Rangers, which wrought havoc behind Japanese lines in Southeast Asia during World War II.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-50Qcqroz8qo/UM1z55PWi1I/AAAAAAAAKpk/ir1_d8GuePI/s1600/American-airbase-China-1943.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="438" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-50Qcqroz8qo/UM1z55PWi1I/AAAAAAAAKpk/ir1_d8GuePI/s640/American-airbase-China-1943.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">An American aircraft technician waving to sky borne B-24 "Liberator at a airport in China. In the foreground - the P-40 with external fuel tanks of the squadron "Flying Tigers» (Flying tigers). 1943.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-15138713872303492932012-12-08T00:44:00.000-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.091-07:00Third Reich Military Art: HANS LISKA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KGmvKGPJHk8/UMg4JhQ97tI/AAAAAAAAKik/_TvBfSbiEYM/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Reich Military art Hans Liska" border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KGmvKGPJHk8/UMg4JhQ97tI/AAAAAAAAKik/_TvBfSbiEYM/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-014.jpg" title="Third Reich Military art by Hans Liska" width="569" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Liska's war paintings are striking. They catch the attention even of someone totally ignorant about art .</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">LIFE SKETCH OF HANS LISKA</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Liska wanted as a boy to be a draftsman, but first he attended trade school and then worked as an office boy. Besides, he played piano in a dance school. There, at a big event, he replaced a failed musician and was hired by the popular singing group. Now, he was earning more than before, and he began to realize his old dream.</span><br /><br style="font-family: arial;" /><span style="font-family: arial;">Liska attended the Vienna School of Applied Arts at Alfred Roller , where he was student of Berthold Löffler. He then worked as a commercial artist in Switzerland. He then attended the School of Applied Arts in Munich , where he was a pupil of Emil Praetorius and Walther Teutsch. From 1933 to 1944 he served as apprentice for the cartoonists&nbsp;</span><i style="font-family: arial;">Berliner Zeitung Illustrirte</i><span style="font-family: arial;">&nbsp;newspaper and propaganda sheet&nbsp;</span><i style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&amp;ei=zfDCUO_MJ47krAe6uoCQBg&amp;hl=en&amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3DHans%2BLiska%26hl%3Den%26tbo%3Dd%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D742&amp;rurl=translate.google.co.in&amp;sl=de&amp;twu=1&amp;u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(Zeitschrift)&amp;usg=ALkJrhgh_eEXT_qELzhAnueMVwlbSuN46Q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Signal</a></i><span style="font-family: arial;">. &nbsp;Liska was promoted by the Ullstein company. In 1933, he attended the United School of Fine and Applied Arts as a student under Ferdinand Spiegel . In 1939, he was drafted as a soldier and an artist in a propaganda unit and special squadron. His drawings of the various war fronts appeared in many newspapers, even in neutral countries. Two of his sketch-books from the years 1942&nbsp;</span><i style="font-family: arial;">(Junkers)</i><span style="font-family: arial;">&nbsp;and 1944&nbsp;</span><i style="font-family: arial;">(Hans Liska)</i><span style="font-family: arial;">&nbsp;are now a rarity.</span><br /><br style="font-family: arial;" /><span style="font-family: arial;">After the war Hans Liska stayed at Schesslitz near Bamberg in Germany, married in 1948 and resumed his drawing for the magazines</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_(German_magazine)" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">&nbsp;<i>Quick</i></a><span style="font-family: arial;">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6rzu" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><i>Hörzu</i>&nbsp;</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. He worked for many years in the advertising creating drawings for the automotive industry, Daimler-Benz, Cologne Ford and Mühlens were his clients.&nbsp;</span><br /><br style="font-family: arial;" /><span style="font-family: arial;">Hans Liska had always been an avid lover of Mozart operas, and in 1982, came &nbsp;his book "Magic of the Stage". On 26 December 1983 Hans Liska suffered a heart attack, he died shortly afterwards.</span><br /><br style="font-family: arial;" /><span style="font-family: arial;">In an autobiography in the picture book&nbsp;</span><i style="font-family: arial;">Picturesque Kulmbach</i><span style="font-family: arial;">. Liska declared himself as an admirer of Oskar Kokoschka , Pablo Picasso and Max Ernst .</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Below are some of Liska's drawings depicting the Second World War.....</b></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vaxXaeoSrJk/UMg4V-vXVgI/AAAAAAAAKis/HmvNQ9TELoU/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="458" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vaxXaeoSrJk/UMg4V-vXVgI/AAAAAAAAKis/HmvNQ9TELoU/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-001.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The German "Katyusha", Nebelwerfer in action</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Iup69AY9kHc/UMg468tQ4qI/AAAAAAAAKi0/vpyd16fgdX8/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="458" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Iup69AY9kHc/UMg468tQ4qI/AAAAAAAAKi0/vpyd16fgdX8/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-003.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">German soldiers on a railway train fire at the enemy. Partisans?</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DUbBivzu7Xo/UMg5J8V4gtI/AAAAAAAAKi8/cb3iXoWpTAo/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="414" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DUbBivzu7Xo/UMg5J8V4gtI/AAAAAAAAKi8/cb3iXoWpTAo/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-004.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Removing mines in Sevastapol.&nbsp;</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dPbFmoVttIQ/UMg5bHdQoUI/AAAAAAAAKjE/2Im-N8-DBY4/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="444" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dPbFmoVttIQ/UMg5bHdQoUI/AAAAAAAAKjE/2Im-N8-DBY4/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-005.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uw72Qo7MZFs/UMg5i_OGLmI/AAAAAAAAKjM/Kerd7LoQH9I/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="465" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uw72Qo7MZFs/UMg5i_OGLmI/AAAAAAAAKjM/Kerd7LoQH9I/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-006.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Each white stripe on the barrel 88-mm cannon, the "Tiger" - the destroyed enemy tank</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y9paaqddPoc/UMg5vzbSvRI/AAAAAAAAKjU/gCxpUzeWKa8/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y9paaqddPoc/UMg5vzbSvRI/AAAAAAAAKjU/gCxpUzeWKa8/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-008.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Morser heavy gun fires. In the foreground, radio operators at work (apparently talking to artillery fire spotters)</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-joP5pEnLsNY/UMg59tV01oI/AAAAAAAAKjc/ot6PzrD9A2w/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="514" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-joP5pEnLsNY/UMg59tV01oI/AAAAAAAAKjc/ot6PzrD9A2w/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-009.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A Panzer 4 and German Grenadiers attack</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pvaEdbzdnqg/UMg6HZvhTDI/AAAAAAAAKjk/rDmBioe8URo/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="460" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pvaEdbzdnqg/UMg6HZvhTDI/AAAAAAAAKjk/rDmBioe8URo/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-010.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">"Attack"</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mN4Yr1ZVbl4/UMg6ZNQwivI/AAAAAAAAKjs/v6YsL04AjTU/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="460" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mN4Yr1ZVbl4/UMg6ZNQwivI/AAAAAAAAKjs/v6YsL04AjTU/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-013.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Supply vessels</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-giaGiRx3co0/UMg6k4uABJI/AAAAAAAAKj0/rsk5GGsbaBA/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="446" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-giaGiRx3co0/UMg6k4uABJI/AAAAAAAAKj0/rsk5GGsbaBA/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-016.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dieppe beachhead, 1942. The strangest British operation during all of World - an attempt to land troops and capture the French port of Dieppe, launched August 19, 1942.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EPZ1B-2-1n8/UMg6yICwBgI/AAAAAAAAKj8/pje9yu2T6ac/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="464" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EPZ1B-2-1n8/UMg6yICwBgI/AAAAAAAAKj8/pje9yu2T6ac/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-017.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fighting in the woods</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YR8e1RQGjDo/UML5nFbgrGI/AAAAAAAAKgY/7yTe6L_jHL4/s1600/hans-liska-german-military-art-014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="612" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YR8e1RQGjDo/UML5nFbgrGI/AAAAAAAAKgY/7yTe6L_jHL4/s640/hans-liska-german-military-art-014.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">SdKfz 250 armored personnel carriers in the attack</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_spYlLbuJGQ/UMg7C8b8QCI/AAAAAAAAKkE/gUsbQaogM_M/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_spYlLbuJGQ/UMg7C8b8QCI/AAAAAAAAKkE/gUsbQaogM_M/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-011.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Ju-52 transports - "Aunt Jumo," as the Germans called them</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qBwgbht2T4Q/UMg7D8dXO5I/AAAAAAAAKkM/x0qAJNKdUnI/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="384" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qBwgbht2T4Q/UMg7D8dXO5I/AAAAAAAAKkM/x0qAJNKdUnI/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-012.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">JU-87. Stuka Dive Bombers</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VXbhWc7fWjE/UMg7FymvF4I/AAAAAAAAKkc/uqs7doqAo_Q/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="448" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VXbhWc7fWjE/UMg7FymvF4I/AAAAAAAAKkc/uqs7doqAo_Q/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-015.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_lLlB1xK5lA/UMg7HNQ_K5I/AAAAAAAAKkg/B-tsQH68qmY/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="394" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_lLlB1xK5lA/UMg7HNQ_K5I/AAAAAAAAKkg/B-tsQH68qmY/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-018.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">German planes over Athens</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t88EmEEZaIE/UMg7H8W4V4I/AAAAAAAAKks/rq8Uig8ahbo/s1600/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="510" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t88EmEEZaIE/UMg7H8W4V4I/AAAAAAAAKks/rq8Uig8ahbo/s640/German-military-paintings-Hans-Liska-019.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">"Mountain Arrow"</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><b>Related</b><br /><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.in/2012/12/military-art-in-third-reich-part-1.html" target="_blank">German Military Paintings During WW2</a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">--------------------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="228" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MgnAv4Exe_w/UMWDXcg9IXI/AAAAAAAAKhM/8zPhJFQ9N4w/s320/hans-liska.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005STOMJI?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B005STOMJI&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=incrwarimag-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MORE HANS LISKA PAINTINGS</a></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-3908311479938276232012-12-06T23:15:00.000-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.195-07:00Military Art In The Third Reich: Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rjQ5mr0n58E/UMGNWe4EOEI/AAAAAAAAKc8/u5PjMwbAinw/s1600/Grenadier-1943-Will-Tschech.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="German military art WW2 Will Tschech" border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rjQ5mr0n58E/UMGNWe4EOEI/AAAAAAAAKc8/u5PjMwbAinw/s640/Grenadier-1943-Will-Tschech.jpg" title="German military art during WW2 by Will Tschech" width="451" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Grenadiere 1943. </b><i>Will Tschech</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you know, Hitler in his youth used &nbsp;to make a living by drawing the sights of Vienna. Even during the First World War, as a corporal of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment, in between fights, he painted landscapes in Flanders. When this former street artist and retired corporal was appointed chancellor of Germany, &nbsp;there were internationally renowned artists in the country - the avant-garde and Expressionism. Such as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. The work of such artists was declared "degenerate art", and their pictures were taken out of the exhibition halls, and the artists themselves had to flee Germany. In Nazi Germany there was only one direction of painting - realism.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before the war, German artists diligently painted rural landscapes, German workers and peasants, naked Germans. Pornography in the Third Reich was banned, but there was an easy sensuality in classical painting style.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the start of the war, German painters, of course, began to paint battle scenes. &nbsp;- because one of the first salvos of the new World War were volleys 280-mm guns.The German ship Schleswig-Holstein fired the first shots of World War II when she fired at the Polish base at Westerplatte in the early morning hours of 1 September 1939.. &nbsp;Submarines too were painted - the initial period of the war, German U-boats beat all records of the tonnage of ships sunk - 420 thousand tonnes in the first four months of the war, and 14,119,413 tons in the whole war!&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In one of the pictures we see a ship of the line " Bismarck "- a symbol of the German Kriegsmarine. &nbsp;50,000 900 tons full displacement, 8 guns caliber 380 mm. To his credit - the British battle cruiser "Hood" (46 480 tons full displacement, 8 guns caliber 381 mm - the enemy of equal "weight category"). On May 27, 1941 "Bismarck" was destroyed in an unequal battle with the British fleet during the attempts to break into the vast Atlantic.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the &nbsp;later paintings other combat arms - infantry, tanks, aircraft, artillery were fully represented.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course, German artists painted just soldiers, and war. Mass executions, burning of villages, and other "exploits", which became a pretext for carrying out numerous trials after the war, was not a source of inspiration for German artists.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most of the artists whose works are shown below, are long and well forgotten.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x1mUvjRlNhI/UMGJ_tm15ZI/AAAAAAAAKcc/KlcGnChOkhk/s1600/German-military-art-ww2-U-Boat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="German military art ww2 Claus Bergen" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x1mUvjRlNhI/UMGJ_tm15ZI/AAAAAAAAKcc/KlcGnChOkhk/s1600/German-military-art-ww2-U-Boat.jpg" title="German military art during ww2 by Claus Bergen" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>German U-Boat. 1941. Painting by <a href="http://schikelgruber.net/bergen.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Claus Bergen</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iReK-f5hxM0/UMGKA6QqnlI/AAAAAAAAKcg/HJNHCJOJ_dI/s1600/german-miliatry-art-third-reich-stalingrad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="stalingrad painting bush" border="0" height="562" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iReK-f5hxM0/UMGKA6QqnlI/AAAAAAAAKcg/HJNHCJOJ_dI/s640/german-miliatry-art-third-reich-stalingrad.jpg" title="stalingrad painting by Bush" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Stalingrad. 1943. Painting by K. Bush</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sgR_pazAiWY/UMGKEbeFCeI/AAAAAAAAKcs/xJDwvcuhp7s/s1600/third-reich-military-art-claus-Bergen-U-Boat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="claus bergen U boat ww2 " border="0" height="402" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sgR_pazAiWY/UMGKEbeFCeI/AAAAAAAAKcs/xJDwvcuhp7s/s640/third-reich-military-art-claus-Bergen-U-Boat.jpg" title="claus bergen U boat ww2 " width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>U-Boat returning from a trip. Painting by <a href="http://schikelgruber.net/bergen.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Claus Bergen </a>von Feindfahrt Zurück</b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K4bgHAvC5Q0/UMGMAlP_r4I/AAAAAAAAKc0/Qw6RUnz8OWA/s1600/German-military-art-Claus-Bergen-U-Boat-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K4bgHAvC5Q0/UMGMAlP_r4I/AAAAAAAAKc0/Qw6RUnz8OWA/s1600/German-military-art-Claus-Bergen-U-Boat-003.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Submarine U-003.</b> <i>Claus Bergen</i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TRLY7okJ4fo/UMGO7WdzC8I/AAAAAAAAKdE/cCBXztt8LLk/s1600/Waffen-SS-Third-reich-military-art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="waffen ss 1943 painting will Tschech" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TRLY7okJ4fo/UMGO7WdzC8I/AAAAAAAAKdE/cCBXztt8LLk/s1600/Waffen-SS-Third-reich-military-art.jpg" title="waffen ss 1943 painting by will Tschech" /></a></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><b style="font-style: normal;">Waffen SS 1943.&nbsp;</b><i>Will Tschech</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vzKixi2letY/UMGQx-EJ59I/AAAAAAAAKdM/rEBHlH8-iMA/s1600/Will-Tschech-1940-Third-reich-painting-military.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vzKixi2letY/UMGQx-EJ59I/AAAAAAAAKdM/rEBHlH8-iMA/s640/Will-Tschech-1940-Third-reich-painting-military.jpg" width="472" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Kameraden, 1940.</b><i> Will Tschech</i></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6i4GlDBnIjQ/UMGUMkpdk4I/AAAAAAAAKdo/b6_Zia-qQ4U/s1600/Mathias-Padua-Assault-Boat-With-Engineers-May-10-1940.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="386" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6i4GlDBnIjQ/UMGUMkpdk4I/AAAAAAAAKdo/b6_Zia-qQ4U/s640/Mathias-Padua-Assault-Boat-With-Engineers-May-10-1940.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Engineers in Assault Boat May 10, 1940</b> <i>by <a href="http://goo.gl/e4jdK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mathias Padua</a>.</i> (Click <b><a href="http://img222.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=864300604_tduid3205_Mathias_Padua_Assault_Boat_With_Engineers_May_10_1940_122_953lo.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></b> to see in large size)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PoZ8d6nWv4Q/UMLnESz8TsI/AAAAAAAAKeE/ohhMp-M17V4/s1600/German-military-art-german-stormtroopers-Messerschmitt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PoZ8d6nWv4Q/UMLnESz8TsI/AAAAAAAAKeE/ohhMp-M17V4/s1600/German-military-art-german-stormtroopers-Messerschmitt.jpg" /></a></div><b>A Messerschmitt 110 covers German storm troopers</b><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zKXkSRqBxtM/UMgxgintepI/AAAAAAAAKhs/xtxyaWLn7a4/s1600/German-military-paintings-ww2-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Battle Britain German painting" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zKXkSRqBxtM/UMgxgintepI/AAAAAAAAKhs/xtxyaWLn7a4/s1600/German-military-paintings-ww2-001.jpg" title="Battle Britain German painting" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>German planes over England</b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q3I8dKFWgbw/UMgxhX3x6WI/AAAAAAAAKhw/xtazmUwjhmM/s1600/German-military-paintings-ww2-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q3I8dKFWgbw/UMgxhX3x6WI/AAAAAAAAKhw/xtazmUwjhmM/s1600/German-military-paintings-ww2-002.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The big German transport plane,"Focke-Wulf-200"</b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4QXqhT9k12E/UMgxiWUEqWI/AAAAAAAAKh4/ecc5ZxpwLdA/s1600/German-military-paintings-ww2-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="stuka dive bombers painting" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4QXqhT9k12E/UMgxiWUEqWI/AAAAAAAAKh4/ecc5ZxpwLdA/s1600/German-military-paintings-ww2-003.jpg" title="stuka dive bombers painting" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Stuka Dive Bombers &nbsp;(JU 87) attack</b></td></tr></tbody></table><b></b> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Atgto4LWdLs/UMLqSLt6m_I/AAAAAAAAKeg/E11iVjSViuo/s1600/German-military-art-german-motorised-infantry-Liska.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="448" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Atgto4LWdLs/UMLqSLt6m_I/AAAAAAAAKeg/E11iVjSViuo/s640/German-military-art-german-motorised-infantry-Liska.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>German motorised infantry</b>. <i>Hans Liska</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kj7E9hEWl9s/UMgzKBTSnRI/AAAAAAAAKiE/X7V1LFvtSA8/s1600/German-military-paintings-ww2-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kj7E9hEWl9s/UMgzKBTSnRI/AAAAAAAAKiE/X7V1LFvtSA8/s1600/German-military-paintings-ww2-004.jpg" /></a></div><b>Victory in an air battle</b><br /><i><br /></i><br /><br /><i><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">RELATED</span></i></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.in/2012/12/third-reich-military-art-hans-liska.html" target="_blank">German Military Paintings by HANS LISKA</a></span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-29577589049674209702012-11-26T23:48:00.002-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.138-07:00The Mind of JOSEPH GOEBBELS, Master Propagandist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>We have made the Reich by propaganda.</b></span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">--JOSEPH GOEBBELS</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” </b></span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">--JOSEPH GOEBBELS</span></i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lMrjs0EA3b0/UL2iD793JHI/AAAAAAAAKb4/RAtDnQgY0jQ/s1600/goebbels.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Joseph Goebbels Nazi propaganda minister" border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lMrjs0EA3b0/UL2iD793JHI/AAAAAAAAKb4/RAtDnQgY0jQ/s640/goebbels.jpg" title="Joseph Goebbels Nazi propaganda minister" width="640" /></a></div><br /><i>He controlled the minds of millions of Germans. It is doubtful whether Hitler's Third Reich could have lasted this long without Goebbels wizardry. When it comes to propaganda and mind-washing on a mass scale there will never be another one to surpass this little man who was an important cog in a juggernaut that was Nazi Germany.</i><br /><i><br /></i>Dr. Joseph Goebbels - one of the most prominent personalities of the twentieth century. Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda of the Third Reich. Throughout the long twelve years of his ministry he was to decide what would appear on the front page headlines, what songs would be performed in a radio broadcast, which films would be released in cinemas and what would be the repertoire on the stage. Largely thanks to the Ministry of Propaganda &nbsp;the Germans continued to fight on the Eastern Front until the end, even after the outcome of the war was obvious to everyone. Many Germans, who could not flee to the rear, committed suicide. And he, Goebbels and his wife too committed suicide by poisoning after killing their six children.<br /><div style="text-align: center;">---------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”</b></span></i><br />---------------------</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HviIm_i3taU/ULRv64Wlo6I/AAAAAAAAKaQ/yyy7KGShJgw/s1600/Goebbels-Goering-1930.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Goebbels Goering in 1930" border="0" height="464" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HviIm_i3taU/ULRv64Wlo6I/AAAAAAAAKaQ/yyy7KGShJgw/s640/Goebbels-Goering-1930.jpg" title="Goebbels with Goering in 1930" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Goebbels with Goering in 1930</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>Future Reich Chancellor (albeit for a day) was born October 28, 1897 in a town in Rhineland called Reydt to a pious family bookkeeper. His father dreamed that the young Joseph become a Catholic priest, but his son wanted to become a writer and playwright. With the financial support of the Catholic "Society of Albert Magnus," he finished a course of humanities in almost all major German universities. In April 21, 1922 after defending his thesis "Wilhelm von Schutz as a playwright. On the History of the romantic school drama" Goebbels received his Ph.D. at Heidelberg University. World War One did not interrupt Goebbels' studies as he was found unfit for military service because of a birth defect - lameness (one leg shorter than the other). As a playwright, of which he dreamed of becoming, he was unsuccessful - he wrote the play "The Wanderer" ("Der Wanderer") but no one wanted to put it on stage. Goebbels did not succeed as a writer too- the novel "Michael", which told the plight of Germany, did not generate interest from publishers. The novel was completed in 1924, and he managed to publish it only five years later, when he was already a well-known politician, journalist, and a member of the Reichstag. Until 1924 Goebbels had to earn a living, working a modest bank clerk.<br /><div style="text-align: center;">---------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East and Southeast Europe along with the greater part of the Reich. An iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.”</span></b></i><br />----------------------------</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GC4Z_in2Yeg/UL2jNNKHWYI/AAAAAAAAKcA/FmMJs0cq6zA/s1600/goebbels.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Goebbels cartoon " border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GC4Z_in2Yeg/UL2jNNKHWYI/AAAAAAAAKcA/FmMJs0cq6zA/s640/goebbels.JPG" title="For someone espousing the superior Aryan race, Goebbels himself hardly fitted the ideal model." width="590" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>For someone espousing the superior Aryan race, Goebbels himself &nbsp;hardly fitted the ideal model.</b> <i>(H. Dobhenysk, A Pure-Blooded Aryan, Chicago Daily News (1937)</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table>In 1923, after the Beer Hall Putsch (November 9, 1923) - attempt to seize power in Bavaria, the whole of Germany learned of the existence of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, led by Adolf Hitler. Hitler used the ensuing trial to tell the whole country about himself, his party and his views. And Goebbels decided that this party (officially banned after the trial) suited him. By 1924 the Department of the NSDAP came to his hometown and he did not hesitate to join the party (party ticket number 8762).<br /><div style="text-align: center;">---------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;">Recounting his day in a diary entry:] Goebbels wrote<i><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> "At table the Führer made another strong plea for vegetarianism. I consider his views correct. Meat-eating is a perversion of our human nature. When we reach a higher level of civilization, we shall doubtlessly overcome it."</span></b></i><br />---------------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sheGu1t5VP4/UL2UlT5jOwI/AAAAAAAAKbQ/mvBaGYresNc/s1600/Hitler-and-Goebbels-at-a-film-studio-1935.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Hitler Goebbels film studio 1935" border="0" height="448" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sheGu1t5VP4/UL2UlT5jOwI/AAAAAAAAKbQ/mvBaGYresNc/s640/Hitler-and-Goebbels-at-a-film-studio-1935.jpg" title="Hitler and Goebbels at a film studio in 1935" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Hitler and Goebbels at a film studio in 1935</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>The Nazi Party at the time had a strong left wing - part of the Nazis led by Gregor Strasser perceived the word "socialist" &nbsp;too seriously in the name of the Nazi Party. The radical socialist and &nbsp;frustrated writer and playwright joined this wing. Strasser entrusted the editorial post in his newspaper "HC-Brief."to this young man &nbsp;Meanwhile, in December 1924, after spending a year of his prison term &nbsp;Adolf Hitler came out to freedom. Towards Socialism his attitude was more than cool and disputes broke out between his supporters and followers of Strasser. In the course of this debate radically minded Goebbels came to exclude "bourgeois Hitler" from party ranks. But in 1926, after a personal meeting with Hitler, Goebbels unconditionally moved to his side. The tone of &nbsp;his articles &nbsp;changed dramatically - his articles turned into odes of praise to the leader. And Hitler appreciated the flow of praise - in October of 1926 he appointed his new admirer Gauleiter (head of the party cell) of Berlin. It is difficult to say whether Goebbels was pleased with the honor - Berlin with its vast working-class district was traditionally a "red" city. The NSDAP Party branch in the capital consisted of only a thousand people and nearly all of them were supporters of Strasser. The party budget consisted of only debts. Goebbels did a &nbsp;strong purge of party ranks and expelled nearly a thousand people from the party . But due to the number of new supporters of the Nazis in Berlin the party was growing steadily. Goebbels organized rallies and the fight against the communists. Later on this period of his political career, he wrote a book "The Struggle for Berlin" (Kampf um Berlin, 1934).<br /><div style="text-align: center;">---------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"I have noticed a slight element of cynicism creeping into our reporting of the war. ... I put a stop to this. ... Our style for this war must be hard, manly, unsentimental, sober, but without smart Alec cleverness. Sarcasm can only harm things."</span></b></i><br />----------------------------------</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9DV64sCSNvs/UL2UkTQJyKI/AAAAAAAAKbI/jRw0K3BuSOU/s1600/Goebbels-speech-during-visit-Mussolini-September-1937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Goebbels Mussolini 1937" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9DV64sCSNvs/UL2UkTQJyKI/AAAAAAAAKbI/jRw0K3BuSOU/s1600/Goebbels-speech-during-visit-Mussolini-September-1937.jpg" title="Goebbels gives a speech during a visit by Mussolini in 1937" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Goebbels gives a speech during a visit by Mussolini in 1937</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The growing popularity of the Nazis and their leader in Berlin alarmed the powers in Berlin. On May 5, 1927 the Nazi Party and the SA troops in Berlin were banned, and Goebbels was forbidden to make any public appearance in the city. However, the ban did not prevent Goebbels from engaging in publishing - he produced the weekly "Angriff." He raised a protest campaign in the press which led to the resignation of the chief of criminal police of the Berlin, a Jew called Weiss. Also in 1927 a &nbsp;Sturmfuhrer (captain) of the SA, a novice poet named&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Horst Wessel</a>&nbsp;put to tune an old German song «Der Abenteurer» («The Adventurer"). His words were about &nbsp;invisible fallen heroes. The result was a cheerful marching song &nbsp;which attacked the &nbsp;Communists. &nbsp;Maybe this song would have remained a local Berlin hit, which no one would have remembered now, but because of Goebbels at least the name of the song is known around the world. In 1930, the author himself joins "serried ranks of the fallen heroes," being shot by a communist. Goebbels turned Horst Wessel into a symbol of struggle and martyrdom, and the song became the official anthem of the party (after January 30, 1933. It also became part of the state Anthem, which consisted of two parts - one verse of "German Song", followed by the first verse of "Horst Wessel"). In 1932, Goebbels used the same propaganda tool at the death of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Norkus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Herbert Norkus</a>, a teenager of the Hitler Youth. Immediately after the Nazis came to power in the summer of 1933, UFA Cinema promptly released two films devoted to these heroes - "Hans Westmar - one of many" and "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024127/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hitlerjunge Quex</a>."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>"[I] tone down the grotesque exaggerations - 'London a sea of flames', etc. - which ... can only harm us in the future. We must not arouse hopes if they cannot be fulfilled immediately."</b></span></i><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">------------------------</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ua42jGtzc4k/UL2UmStJFII/AAAAAAAAKbY/u0pVy7pXOE8/s1600/Joesph-magda-Goebbels-with-their-children.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Joseph Magda Goebbels children" border="0" height="476" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ua42jGtzc4k/UL2UmStJFII/AAAAAAAAKbY/u0pVy7pXOE8/s640/Joesph-magda-Goebbels-with-their-children.jpg" title="Joseph and Magda Goebbels with their children. All of them were given cyanide on May 1, 1945" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Joseph and Magda Goebbels with their children. All of them were given cyanide on May 1, 1945</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But back to "fight for Berlin." The ban on the Nazi party did not last a year; On May 31, 1928 it was removed. And it April 20, 1928, Goebbels entered the Reichstag from the city of Berlin. On January 9, 1929 to the office of Berlin Gauleiter Goebbels added post of imperial head of propaganda (<i>Reichspropagandaleiter</i>) in his resume. One of the "achievements" of Goebbels in office, if it can be called that, in December 1930, he put a the German ban on the famous novel by Erich Remarque <i>"On the Western Front."</i></span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: arial;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1932, he persuaded Hitler to stand for election for Reich President. Hitler initially refused. And besides, he was not able to stand for the any election - he did not have German citizenship. &nbsp;After the "Beer Hall Putsch" in fear of deportation to his home country, he had refused Austrian citizenship and German authorities were in&nbsp;no hurry&nbsp;to provide him with&nbsp;citizenship. But February 25, 1932 the Minister of the Interior appointed Hitler Braunschweig attache in Berlin office of the land, and the assignment of such a position meant automatic granting of German citizenship. Goebbels managed the presidential campaign of Hitler and Hitler came in second with 30.1% of the vote (the first went to Paul von Hindenburg - 49.6% of the vote). In 1932 Germany chose not only the head of state, but&nbsp;held elections to the Reichstag&nbsp;twice, within an interval of less than six months - June 4 and 6 November, . If the presidential election, Hitler took the second place, in the parliamentary polls the &nbsp;Nazis did better; 37.8% of the votes (230 seats) in June. In November gains were not so significant - the Nazis got only 196 seats. But by the time the Germans were tired of endless elections. Be that as it may, under the constitution of the Weimar Republic, a government could be build by a party (or coalition of parties) &nbsp;only if they had&nbsp;more than 50% of the votes&nbsp;in the Reichstag elections. . But in the same year&nbsp;&nbsp;an important change&nbsp;was made&nbsp;to the Constitution. Now the&nbsp;Reich President (Head of State) &nbsp;could freely appoint the&nbsp;chancellor (prime minister) &nbsp;. Hindenburg appointed&nbsp;&nbsp;Adolf Hitler&nbsp;Chancellor on&nbsp;January 30, 1933 . On March 13 of that year, Goebbels was made Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">---------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WHAT OTHERS SAID ABOUT GOEBBELS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Ribbentrop: </b>"I admired Goebbels who was the most intelligent of the whole [Nazi] circle. He was a genial, but nevertheless diabolical person."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Albert Speer:</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> "[My first impression of Goebbels' speech-making was] much phrase-making, careful structure, and incisive formulations; a roaring crowd whom Goebbels whipped up to wilder and wilder frenzies of enthusiasm and hatred; a witches' cauldron of excitement. ... I felt repelled."</span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br /><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Albert Speer: </b>"Both Goebbels and Hitler had understood how to unleash mash instincts at their meetings, how to play on the passions that underlay the veneer of ordinary respectable life. Practiced demagogues, they succeeded in fusing the assembled [people] into a homogeneous mob whose opinions they could mold as they pleased."</span></span></div><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Alfred Krebs:</b> "[Goebbels] spoke with enthusiasm about cultural and artistic matters [and] skirted around political matters."</span></span></div><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">John Keegan:</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> "Like Hitler, he was also a passionate devotee of the cinema, but, while the Führer used the medium chiefly as a means of personal relaxation, Goebbels understood and seized on its power to sway the national imagination."</span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br /><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">John Keegan: </b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of nervous energy. Goebbels, on the other hand, though a galvanic speaker in his own right, directed his overflowing energy into the day-by-day and minute-by-minute [communication]."</span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br /><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">John Keegan:</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> "Goebbels' [method] was anti-rational and emotive in every regard."</span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br /><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">John Keegan:</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> "Like Hitler, Goebbels believed in the primacy of the spoken word over the written word as an instrument of thought control."</span><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br /><span style="text-align: start;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">-----------------------------------------</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zydaUmVLOGo/UL2UiCyJOHI/AAAAAAAAKa4/RRd_Rz_bW-A/s1600/Goebbels-discusses-propaganda-1941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Goebbels war propaganda 1941" border="0" height="455" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zydaUmVLOGo/UL2UiCyJOHI/AAAAAAAAKa4/RRd_Rz_bW-A/s640/Goebbels-discusses-propaganda-1941.jpg" title="Goebbels discusses war propaganda in 1941" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Goebbels discusses war propaganda in 1941</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And Goebbels immediately began to direct the "new order" of cultural life in Germany. Books&nbsp;imbued with "non-German spirit&nbsp;were removed from the library book, .The list of harmful books totaled 14,000 names and 141 German authors. On May 10, 1933, many of these books were burnt in huge bonfires. Goebbels while fighting for control of the press had to fight with Max Amann, who held the post of head of the Imperial Printing and Publishing Director of Central NSDAP "Eher Verlag". in the case of art&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alfred Rosenberg&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tried to interfere. But Goebbels' powers were increasing - September 22, 1933 &nbsp;the Imperial House of Culture was&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">created</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp; to which &nbsp;all the representatives of creative professions&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had to come</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp; Two years later to the House of Culture was added the Imperial Senate culture (of course, also headed by Goebbels). May 14, 1934&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">all the theaters</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp;in Germany&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">went</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">&nbsp;under the control of Goebbels. Goebbels controlled the process of making movies from the stage of writing of the script. For the press releases he issued lengthy briefings &nbsp;containing detailed instructions how to cover certain events in the life of Germany and beyond.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Goebbels used his position to know &nbsp;the whole of Germany - he often started a romance with film and stage actresses. True, not everyone took his importunate courtship. For example, the famous actress and director Leni Riefenstahl did not return his affections. But the rift with the powerful minister of propaganda had no effect on her brilliant career - among her fans was the Fuhrer himself. It was he who instructed her in the making of the 1934 film about the Nuremberg Party Congress. The film "Victory of Faith", however, had to be put on a shelf - there were too many of Ernst Röhms, who was killed during the "Night of the Long Knives". But a year later, Riefenstahl shot a new film about the next Congress - "Triumph of the Will," acknowledged as a classic of world documentary.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">GOEBBELS ON JEWS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to prove that scientifically - it is a fact.&nbsp;</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">&nbsp;I am of the opinion that the greater the number of Jews liquidated, the more consolidated will the situation in Europe be after this war.</span></b></i></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">------------------------</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y47jWsStipw/UL2UhaBFJMI/AAAAAAAAKaw/dM4jdHk-pLM/s1600/Goebbels-and-Leni-Riefenstahl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt=" Goebbels Leni Riefenstahl" border="0" height="456" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y47jWsStipw/UL2UhaBFJMI/AAAAAAAAKaw/dM4jdHk-pLM/s640/Goebbels-and-Leni-Riefenstahl.jpg" title="A taut and uneasy Goebbels with Leni Riefenstahl" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">A taut and uneasy Goebbels with Leni Riefenstahl</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1938, the Office of Goebbels started to prepare for the inevitable war. General Keitel and Goebbels entered into an agreement governing the conduct of propaganda in wartime. And in the same year, start making &nbsp;propaganda for the&nbsp;troops&nbsp;. Goebbels formed a&nbsp;propaganda&nbsp;&nbsp;company with a staff of &nbsp;115 people. The Company consisted of photographers, artists, cameramen and reporters. All of them had passed military training. Welcome and the presence of military specialties - for people who knows the military equipment will not allow in his report annoying bugs. So, among the promoters were representatives of all the armed forces.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That army of propagandists during the war made the famous newsreel <i><b>Die Deutsche Wochenschau</b></i> (German weekly review), which appeared in 1940. Prior to that in Germany there were as many as four newsreels -<i> Ufa-Tonwoche, Deulig-Tonwoche, Fox Tönende Wochenschau</i> and <i>Emelka-Tonwoche</i>, a legacy from the time of the Weimar Republic. They were then produced by different private film companies. Under Hitler they were brought under strict control of the German weekly news center at the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda <i><b>(Deutsche Wochenschauzentrale beim Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda</b></i>). And with the beginning of the war to facilitate the production of newsreels, instead of four only one newsreel was made of 45 minutes duration. It had a print run of 2,000 copies and it was mandatory to be exhibited before each film show. A thousand copies were printed for foreign visitors. The newsreel was translated into 15 European languages. 1,200 meters of film was required for one edition of the newsreel, but the creators of spectacular scenes selected the best shots from the tens of thousands of meters of film footage, shot by front-line news-photographers. <b>This newsreel was the favorite brain child of Joseph Goebbels.</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, to the official posts of Goebbels was added another. On November 16, 1942 he became the Imperial Commissioner for the defense of Berlin. The Battle of Berlin was still far away, but the intensity of the Allied air raids on the capital of the Third Reich was growing every day..The failed coup of 20 July 1944 contributed to the growing power of Goebbels.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a2MrdUZv78I/UL2UgZjaw8I/AAAAAAAAKas/GrfoaxJwcsU/s1600/Goebbels-all-out-war-speech-sports-complex-total-war.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Goebbels Berlin Sports Palace February 18, 1943" border="0" height="468" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a2MrdUZv78I/UL2UgZjaw8I/AAAAAAAAKas/GrfoaxJwcsU/s640/Goebbels-all-out-war-speech-sports-complex-total-war.jpg" title="Goebbels calls for all out war at the Berlin Sports Palace on February 18, 1943" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Goebbels calls for all out war at the Berlin Sports Palace on February 18, 1943</span></b><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwYrcMyAmO_hPlweryMox2FRkSG8T73waPaou--Rl5sJfUZNXRrtPNVAH9BGfpjlLGuBYQMuFPRvq-i1yOAnA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></span></div><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On February 18, 1943 in his famous speech at the Berlin Sports Palace he called for an all-out war. On July 25, 1944 he became the imperial commissioner for total war - he organized the Volkssturm units. The Third Reich began to throw to the front, old men and teenagers - its last reserve. Goebbels' office in every way created a terrible image of the enemy - the bloodthirsty savages from the East who robbed, raped and murdered. In 1943, Goebbels gave extensive instructions (in ten typed pages) to the press about how to cover the execution of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest. In October 1944, the Soviet forces held <b>Nemmersdorf</b>, a German town in East Prussia, for&nbsp;several days&nbsp; On October 23 Germans recaptured this town and found 11 bodies of executed civilians. Through the efforts of Joseph Goebbels the incident was turned into a real massacre - the number of victims increased by 6 times. All the women in &nbsp;Nemmersdorf were allegedly raped, murdered, and their mutilated bodies nailed to doors. The continuous hysteria in the press because of Goebbels cost the lives of thousands of German women and children. At the approach of Soviet troops many German women and girls were killed by their husbands and fathers. Many committed suicide.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"If the day should ever come when we [the Nazis] must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction..."</span></b></i><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-------------------------</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-77iy2HpdhYI/UL2UjfWEoNI/AAAAAAAAKbA/IAUDTBtFOcg/s1600/Goebbels-master-propaganda-last-image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Last image Goebbels March 9, 1945" border="0" height="386" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-77iy2HpdhYI/UL2UjfWEoNI/AAAAAAAAKbA/IAUDTBtFOcg/s640/Goebbels-master-propaganda-last-image.jpg" title="Last image taken of Goebbels on March 9, 1945" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Last image taken of Goebbels on March 9, 1945</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On May 1, 1945 Joseph and Magda Goebbels poisoned with cyanide their six children. 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text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ReJxiKaUdM0/ULHQPhAPK1I/AAAAAAAAKW4/-1pUukkI_B4/s1600/bORIS-eFIMOV-hITLER-AND-HIS-GANG-013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="WW2 Russian Cartoonist BORIS YEFIMOV" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ReJxiKaUdM0/ULHQPhAPK1I/AAAAAAAAKW4/-1pUukkI_B4/s1600/bORIS-eFIMOV-hITLER-AND-HIS-GANG-013.jpg" title="Great Russian Cartoonist BORIS YEFIMOV" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">His cartoons covered a long stretch of history, but here we mainly stress on his cartoons during WW2.....We present his collection of cartoons called "Hitler and his Gang"</span><br /><br /><b>Efimov had an abundance of wit and was exceptionally well read, which gave his drawings a stinging conceptual punch. A telling example is a Efimov drawing from World War II described by Vladimir Mochalov, a fellow cartoonist and artistic director of the famous satirical magazine, Krokodil: “Boris Efi mov published a famous cartoon with the caption: ‘A True Aryan is Tall’, and he drew a small, scrawny Goebbels; ‘A True Aryan is Fit’, and he drew a fat Goering; and, ‘A True Aryan is Blond’, for which he drew Hitler with his black bangs. This was an absolutely timely, witty drawing, a classic political cartoon that you might call: aiming straight between the eyes.” In the bleak early years of the war, cartoons like this one played a critical role in maintaining morale. Efimov himself says about those cartoons, “I have an entire folder of letters from frontline soldiers who thanked me for those cartoons, who wrote me, ‘Draw their faces even funnier, because then it’s more fun to pull the trigger.’”</b><br /><a href="http://www.passportmagazine.ru/article/1565/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.passportmagazine.ru/article/1565/</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">WHO WAS BORIS YEFIMOV (ALSO SPELT EFIMOV)?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e8AQ718qwcQ/ULHB5r3CSEI/AAAAAAAAKWg/ng0b250ELzQ/s1600/Boris-Efimov-cartoons-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e8AQ718qwcQ/ULHB5r3CSEI/AAAAAAAAKWg/ng0b250ELzQ/s640/Boris-Efimov-cartoons-001.jpg" width="544" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Fist.” An iron fist labeled NKVD (the secret police) squeezes a handful of midgets, among them Trotsky, Bukharin, and Rykov. The bodies of the victims end in a single tail that forms a swastika. Cartoon by Boris Efimov included in his memoirs.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Soviet political caricaturist and memoirist who was, for some time, the world's oldest living Jew.</b> During his heyday, which lasted from the 1920s to the fall of the Soviet Union, Boris Efimov was an obedient satirist whose brilliant cartoons depicted Soviet policy on the pages of its major newspapers and magazines: Izvestiia, Pravda, and Krokodil.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">His career was interrupted for several years following the arrest in 1938 of his brother, the writer Mikhail Kol’tsov, who was shot as an enemy of the people in 1940. Efimov was devoted to his brother, trying to secure his release even after—unbeknownst to him—Kol’tsov had been killed. Either because he was valuable to Stalin or because of the peculiar randomness of the Soviet Terror, Efimov himself was spared and brought back to his former position, at first anonymously.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">He was the recipient of numerous Soviet medals and was named a member of the Academy of Arts. In addition to many collections of cartoons, he published four volumes of memoirs, beginning at age 70 and ending at 100.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;Efimov was born in Kiev, where his father had an official document allowing him to engage in shoe repair. Soon after, however, the family left for Belostok (Białystok), where Efimov and his older brother began their schooling. Efimov did not go to art school. The instability of those revolutionary years put him first in Khar’kov (1917) and then, the next year, in Kiev. His first caricature, of the poet Aleksandr Blok, appeared in 1918, and his earliest political cartoon a year later. By 1922 he was in Moscow, where, helped by his brother's ties as well as his own formidable talent, he became associated with the Soviet Union's two major newspapers Pravda and Izvestiia, and the satirical magazines Krokodil (founded in 1922) and Chudak (1928–1930; Efimov began in its second year).&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;Efimov’s subjects were the evil-doing enemies of Soviet domestic and international policy. In terms of foreign policy, these were Wall Street capitalists and leaders of European governments, later including NATO. Western opponents were personified variously, and often wittily: the American capital churned out dollars, the Statue of Liberty was caged or in chains, the bourgeoisie of all Western countries were a combination of potbellied and malevolent.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y1w7UlU7LrU/ULHU_0QeW9I/AAAAAAAAKZ0/3Mc5e3zdOwk/s1600/Boris-Efimov-cartoons-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ww2 Russian Cartoonist BORIS YEFIMOV battle moscow 1941" border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y1w7UlU7LrU/ULHU_0QeW9I/AAAAAAAAKZ0/3Mc5e3zdOwk/s640/Boris-Efimov-cartoons-002.jpg" title="Great Russian Cartoonist BORIS YEFIMOV Battle of Moscow 1941" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>This is how Yefimov showed "The Invincible German Army" after it took a hiding in the Battle of Moscow in December 1941</b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Hitler and the Nazi leadership were unending targets throughout World War II, and also during the Nuremberg Trials. Efimov’s drawings from Nuremberg show the defendants' heads emerging from finely drawn bodies of insects and rodents.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;At the time of the 1967 and 1973 wars, Efimov satirized Israel. His cartoons from the period personify Israel as a burly, gun-toting aggressor (see image). In some cartoons, the Star of David merges with a skull and crossbones (see image). But Efimov steered clear of the Jewish physical stereotypes and Nazi imagery associated with anti-Israel cartoons in the Soviet press, even though he often drew on Nazi symbolism in his caricatures of Western European leaders.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Efimov_Boris_Efimovich" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Efimov_Boris_Efimovich</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cSqGQwCdhdg/ULHQdzkw_zI/AAAAAAAAKXA/HH3z7gjFd_0/s1600/bORIS-eFIMOV-hITLER-AND-HIS-GANG-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cSqGQwCdhdg/ULHQdzkw_zI/AAAAAAAAKXA/HH3z7gjFd_0/s1600/bORIS-eFIMOV-hITLER-AND-HIS-GANG-001.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4PT-nTqVLiQ/ULHQese1KBI/AAAAAAAAKXI/4yHVi_ev9uc/s1600/bORIS-eFIMOV-hITLER-AND-HIS-GANG-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cKCGZlxGxVY/UK8k9N9EBmI/AAAAAAAAKVY/Y8w1X4RDXNs/s1600/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cKCGZlxGxVY/UK8k9N9EBmI/AAAAAAAAKVY/Y8w1X4RDXNs/s320/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-002.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Soviet writer and journalist Ilya Ehrenburg , July 24, 1942, at the height of summer during the German advance on the Don, published in the "Red Star" the infamous article "Kill the Germans." Adolf Hitler personally ordered the capture and hanging of Ehrenburg. Nazi propagandists gave Ehrenburg the nickname "Home Jew Stalin."&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Below is the article as published in the "Red Star".</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aQ6SXt-aAPo/UK8fay5PdtI/AAAAAAAAKU4/MOBzgKfICFA/s1600/kill-th-germans-ilya-ehrenburg-red-star.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aQ6SXt-aAPo/UK8fay5PdtI/AAAAAAAAKU4/MOBzgKfICFA/s1600/kill-th-germans-ilya-ehrenburg-red-star.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Here are excerpts from three letters found on dead Germans. Inspector Reinhardt wrote to Lieutenant Otto Schirach: "[...] I have found six Russians in the area. They last far longer than Frenchmen. Only one of them has died. [...] Their upkeep costs nothing and we must not tolerate that these animals, whose children are possibly killing our children right now, get to eat German bread. Yesterday I whipped lightly two Russian beasts who secretly drunk up skim milk meant for pigs [...]" A certain Otto Essmann wrote to Lieutenant Helmut Wiegand: "We now have some Russian prisoners of war. These fellows feed on worms by the airstrip and throw themselves at buckets of dirty water. I have seen them eating weeds. It is hard to believe that these are human beings..." Slavers - they would like to enslave our people. They take some Russians home, mistreat them, make them lose their wits by hunger, to the point that they eat grass and worms, and then a repulsive German with a stinking cigar can philosophise: "Are these perhaps human beings?" We know everything. We remember everything. We have understood: Germans are not human beings. Henceforth the word German means to us the most terrible curse. From now on the word German will trigger your rifle. We shall not speak any more. We shall not get excited. We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day. If you think that instead of you, the man next to you will kill him, you have not understood the threat. If you do not kill the German, he will kill you. If you cannot kill your German with a bullet, kill him with your bayonet. If there is calm on your part of the front, if you are waiting for the fighting, kill a German before combat. If you leave a German alive, the German will hang a Russian and rape a Russian woman. If you kill one German, kill another - there is nothing more amusing for us than a heap of German corpses. Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill."</span></i></b><br /><br />A little earlier, on 18 July 1942 &nbsp;the "Red Star" published a poem by Konstantin Simonov titled "Kill him", which possibly, inspired Ehrenburg to come up with his subsequent article. Here is the Simonov poem being recited by Mikhail Tsariov, a folk artist<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwtii6-YvdWIUvzi8MHe6pG2vf_UnC0v6hLrYTjx2on74inGpU36UaPbK-PVoysuJOUUbLtTND_d2Dwvad5lA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The text of the Simonov poem......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If your house means a thing to you</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Where you first dreamed your Russian dreams&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>In your swinging cradle, afloat&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Beneath the log ceiling beams.&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If your house means a thing to you&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>With its stove, corners, walls and floors</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Worn smooth by the footsteps of three&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Generations of ancestors.&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If your small garden means a thing:&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>With its May blooms and bees humming low,</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>With its table your grandfather built&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Neath the linden - a century ago.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If you don't want a German to tread&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>The floor in your house and chance</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>To sit in your ancestors' place&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And destroy your yard's trees and plants</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If your mother is dear to you&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And the breast that gave you suck&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Which hasn't had milk for years&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>But is now where you put your cheek;&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If you cannot stand the thought&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Of a German's doing her harm.&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Beating her furrowed face&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>With her braids wound round his arm.&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And those hands which carried you&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>To your cradle washing instead&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>A German's dirty clothes</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Or making him his bed .</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>[If you haven't forgotten your father&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Who tossed you and teased your toes,&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Who was a good soldier, who vanished&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>In the high Carpathian snows,</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Who died for your motherland's fate,&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>For each Don and each Volga wave,&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If you don't want him in his sleeping&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>To turn over in his grave,&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>When a German tears his soldier picture&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>With crosses from its place&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And before your own mother's eyes&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Stamps hobnailed boots on his face.]</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If you don't want to give away&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Her you walked with and didn't touch,</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Her you didn't dare even to kiss&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>For a long time - you loved her so much,</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And the Germans cornering her&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And taking her alive by force,&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Crucifying her - three of them&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Naked, on the floor; with coarse&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Moans, hate, and blood, -&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Those dogs taking advantage of&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>All you sacredly preserved&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>With your strong, male love.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If you don't want to give away&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>To a German with his black gun&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Your house, your mother, your wife&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>All that's yours as a native son&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>No: No one will save your land</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If you don't save it from the worst.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>No: No one will kill this foe,&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If you don't kill him first.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And until you have killed him, don't&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Talk about your love - and&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Call the house where you lived your home&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Or the land where you grew up your land.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If your brother killed a German,&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If your neighbor killed one too,&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>It's your brother's and neighbor's vengeance,&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And it's no revenge for you.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>You can't sit behind another&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Letting him fire your shot.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>If your brother kills a German,</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Hes a soldier; you are not.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>So kill that German so he&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Will lie on the ground's backbone,&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>So the funeral wailing will be&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>In his house, not in your own.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>He wanted it so It's his guilt&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Let his house burn up, and his life.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Let his woman become a widow;&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Don't let it be your wife.&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Don't let your mother tire from tears;&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Let the one who bore him bear the pain.&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Don't let it be yours, but his</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Family who will wait in vain.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>So kill at least one of them&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>And as soon as you can. Still&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Each one you chance to see!&nbsp;</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Kill him! Kill him! Kill!&nbsp;</i></div><br /><br />The "Kill The Germans" campaign took many forms. It appeared on billboards and as posters.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eMKxeuv8cko/UK8k7lFWaVI/AAAAAAAAKVQ/4GlZP2c-U4A/s1600/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eMKxeuv8cko/UK8k7lFWaVI/AAAAAAAAKVQ/4GlZP2c-U4A/s640/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-001.jpg" width="479" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a poster in Leningrad in 1943 at the height of the siege</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cKCGZlxGxVY/UK8k9N9EBmI/AAAAAAAAKVY/Y8w1X4RDXNs/s1600/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cKCGZlxGxVY/UK8k9N9EBmI/AAAAAAAAKVY/Y8w1X4RDXNs/s1600/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-002.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dsnA8qfplg4/UK8k-kRcjGI/AAAAAAAAKVg/6YJGYQ0KMX8/s1600/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-003.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dsnA8qfplg4/UK8k-kRcjGI/AAAAAAAAKVg/6YJGYQ0KMX8/s640/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-003.png" width="412" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NPeb7D6pYPQ/UK8k_0lNmAI/AAAAAAAAKVo/3XynPuE0EfE/s1600/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NPeb7D6pYPQ/UK8k_0lNmAI/AAAAAAAAKVo/3XynPuE0EfE/s1600/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-004.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NQV8QgbBqfU/UK8lA72hL_I/AAAAAAAAKVw/LwS52DBUK1c/s1600/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NQV8QgbBqfU/UK8lA72hL_I/AAAAAAAAKVw/LwS52DBUK1c/s1600/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-005.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Be6p3RJTCPA/UK8lBwLSxFI/AAAAAAAAKV4/hBeFz5xOBBE/s1600/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="450" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Be6p3RJTCPA/UK8lBwLSxFI/AAAAAAAAKV4/hBeFz5xOBBE/s640/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-006.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RjTdOSkUg_k/UK8lDBNsAaI/AAAAAAAAKWA/255HTctw3-4/s1600/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RjTdOSkUg_k/UK8lDBNsAaI/AAAAAAAAKWA/255HTctw3-4/s640/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-007.jpg" width="442" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UYgqNA2lUVs/UK8lEWF3K6I/AAAAAAAAKWI/h2Lwb7O81c0/s1600/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UYgqNA2lUVs/UK8lEWF3K6I/AAAAAAAAKWI/h2Lwb7O81c0/s640/kill-the-german-campaign-soviet-ww2-008.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-49622955150456344932012-11-21T23:19:00.003-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.240-07:00German Anti-Partisan Posters During WW2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">Soviet partisans proved to be big pain in the neck for the Germans in occupied territories during WW2. Hence the posters...</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O07dY7POmNk/UK3Pm65nD_I/AAAAAAAAKTo/N5gfEj8koiY/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O07dY7POmNk/UK3Pm65nD_I/AAAAAAAAKTo/N5gfEj8koiY/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-001.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This posters warn Ukrainian mothers against partisans (see the skull head lurking in the back?)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5s_xDbaJKBc/UK3PwZoUNfI/AAAAAAAAKTw/a-DyXd0hi0U/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5s_xDbaJKBc/UK3PwZoUNfI/AAAAAAAAKTw/a-DyXd0hi0U/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-002.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;Same message. Partisans are blood-thirsty</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HvpGbj5-qqE/UK3PxcyBr9I/AAAAAAAAKT4/Ltf58m18Ptk/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HvpGbj5-qqE/UK3PxcyBr9I/AAAAAAAAKT4/Ltf58m18Ptk/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-003.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;Stay with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Bulba" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Taras Bulba</a> and fight the partisans. Bulba was a Ukrainian nationalist in a novel by Gogol</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AfzPG85LSeo/UK3PyBeno_I/AAAAAAAAKUA/mGVOFNkfh1Y/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AfzPG85LSeo/UK3PyBeno_I/AAAAAAAAKUA/mGVOFNkfh1Y/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-004.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;The message is that the Red Army and partisans are connected with the Jews.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hKu6YEo8YaM/UK3PzfWLm6I/AAAAAAAAKUI/DQ4nGwxa4W8/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hKu6YEo8YaM/UK3PzfWLm6I/AAAAAAAAKUI/DQ4nGwxa4W8/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-005.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;"Cast the Jewish hirelings into the abyss"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XAJQ5deemvo/UK3P0vW6TAI/AAAAAAAAKUQ/Upyj3S3tWho/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="448" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XAJQ5deemvo/UK3P0vW6TAI/AAAAAAAAKUQ/Upyj3S3tWho/s640/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-006.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;The Stalinist gang - the enemy of every peaceful and honest man <br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E3UFrj1QijA/UK3P1kKRMgI/AAAAAAAAKUY/fOrUiUMeA8o/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="436" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E3UFrj1QijA/UK3P1kKRMgI/AAAAAAAAKUY/fOrUiUMeA8o/s640/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-007.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XPHsB5cLs30/UK3P20AYLLI/AAAAAAAAKUg/smNfVFUmoAk/s1600/German-anti-partisan-posters-ww2-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: #0000cc; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden;" target="_blank"><b style="cursor: pointer; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden;">American</b><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="cursor: pointer; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><b style="cursor: pointer; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden;">Posters</b><span style="color: #0000cc;"><span style="cursor: pointer; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden;">&nbsp;During&nbsp;</span></span><b style="cursor: pointer; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden;">WW2</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://historyimages.blogspot.in/2012/10/british-propaganda-posters-during-ww2.html" target="_blank">More British Posters During WW2</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.in/2012/11/british-paintings-during-ww2-war-and.html" target="_blank">British Propaganda Painting During WW2</a></span></div></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-59853657018413570542012-11-20T23:45:00.001-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.299-07:00 "Why We Fight" Films By Capra: American Propaganda During WW2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xzlcQ_9AFQA/UKyIL2ly9mI/AAAAAAAAKTQ/V8m7uNycCtg/s1600/why-we-fight-american-propaganda-ww2-frank-capra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="436" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xzlcQ_9AFQA/UKyIL2ly9mI/AAAAAAAAKTQ/V8m7uNycCtg/s640/why-we-fight-american-propaganda-ww2-frank-capra.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Why We Fight</b> is a series of <b>seven</b> documentary films commissioned by the United States government during World War II whose purpose was <b>to show American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement</b> in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S. public <b>to persuade them to support American involvement in the war.</b></span></h2><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Most of the films were<b> directed by Frank Capra,</b> who was daunted yet also impressed and challenged by Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film Triumph of the Will and who worked in direct response to it. The series faced a tough challenge: convincing an only recently non-interventionist nation of the need to become involved in the war and ally with the Soviets, among other things. In many of the films, Capra and other directors spliced in Axis powers propaganda footage going back twenty years, and recontextualized it so it promoted the cause of the Allies.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Why We Fight was edited primarily by William Hornbeck, although some parts were re-enacted "under War Department supervision" if there was no relevant footage available. The animated portions of the films were produced by the Disney studios – with the animated maps following a convention of depicting Axis-occupied territory in black.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>PRELUDE TO WAR:</b>&nbsp;examines the difference between democratic and fascist states, and covers the Japanese conquest of Manchuria and the Italian conquest of Ethiopia. Capra describes it as "presenting a general picture of two worlds; the slave and the free, and the rise of totalitarian militarism from Japan's conquest of Manchuria to Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Mm3GsSWKyso" width="400"></iframe><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">------------------------------------------<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>THE NAZIS STRIKE</b>:&nbsp;covers Nazi geopolitics and the conquest of Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Capra's description: "Hitler rises. Imposes Nazi dictatorship on Germany. Goose-steps into Rhineland and Austria. Threatens war unless given Czechoslovakia. Appeasers oblige. Hitler invades Poland. Curtain rises on the tragedy of the century—World War II."<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="263" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QZBS1mlkBWc" width="350"></iframe><br />-----------------------------------------------<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>DIVIDE AND CONQUER</b>:&nbsp;about the campaign in Benelux and the Fall of France. Capra's description: "Hitler occupies Denmark and Norway, outflanks Maginot Line, drives British Army into North Sea, forces surrender of France."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="263" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7i85dJViVzk?rel=0" width="350"></iframe><br />-------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN</b> depicts Britain's victory against the Luftwaffe. Capra's synopsis: "Showing the gallant and victorious defense of Britain by Royal Air Force, at a time when shattered but unbeaten British were only people fighting Nazis<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="263" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cSZnFo7JORo?rel=0" width="350"></iframe><br />---------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>THE BATTLE OF RUSSIA</b> shows a history of Russian defense and Russia's battle against Germany. Capra's synopsis: "History of Russia; people, size, resources, wars. Death struggle against Nazi armies at gates of Moscow and Leningrad. At Stalingrad, Nazis put through meat grinder."<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="197" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1ieGLnOhM1o?rel=0" width="350"></iframe><br />-----------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>THE BATTLE OF CHINA</b>&nbsp;shows Japanese aggression such as the Nanking Massacre and Chinese efforts such as the construction of the Burma Road and the Battle of Changsha. Capra's synopsis: "Japan's warlords commit total effort to conquest of China. Once conquered, Japan would use China's manpower for the conquest of all Asia."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="263" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/m4Ebv-FzP60?rel=0" width="350"></iframe><br />-----------------------------------------------<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>WAR COMES TO AMERICA</b> shows how the pattern of Axis aggression turned the American people against isolationism. Capra's synopsis: "Dealt with who, what, where, why, and how we came to be the U.S.A.—the oldest major democratic republic still living under its original constitution. But the heart of the film dealt with the depth and variety of emotions with which Americans reacted to the traumatic events in Europe and Asia. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">RELATED</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.in/p/cartoonsposters-propaganda-during-world.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cartoons/Posters During WW2</a></div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-76573880899008626122012-11-20T00:20:00.003-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.358-07:00German Cartoon During WW2: "Lustige Blatter"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Lustige Blatter</i> (Funny Sheets) was a German satire humor weekly magazine. It was published till 1944. Obviously it steered clear from making barbs at Nazi leaders but Allied leaders were the object of their cartoons. Besides overt German propaganda and anti-semitism, &nbsp;apolitical social issues too were raised.The drawings were top class.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B2s2XSd3nTo/UKs0dJiEtTI/AAAAAAAAKQ4/9eP4lXn60xQ/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B2s2XSd3nTo/UKs0dJiEtTI/AAAAAAAAKQ4/9eP4lXn60xQ/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-007.jpg" width="478" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">February 15, 1942 British Singapore became Japanese territory. "Singapore. Strongest fortress in the world" - the magazine celebrates the success of the Japanese.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"></span> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bfmVL20KaWk/UKsqWxz6a1I/AAAAAAAAKPw/ugGwWB9wpLM/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bfmVL20KaWk/UKsqWxz6a1I/AAAAAAAAKPw/ugGwWB9wpLM/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-001.jpg" width="475" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Optimism: "Victory will be ours! The King found one four-leaf clover". According to British legends four-leaf clover brings good luck to those who find it. The Issue was published in the winter of the 1941, when the bombing of London had become much less intense, but still continued.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qcsR0eQ5PyU/UKsuWQqHz5I/AAAAAAAAKQE/H3ELQof-bvM/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="German Cartoon During WW2 Lustige Blatter" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qcsR0eQ5PyU/UKsuWQqHz5I/AAAAAAAAKQE/H3ELQof-bvM/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-002.jpg" title="German Cartoon During WW2: &quot;Lustige Blatter&quot;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I am a friend of all the small countries." Churchill takes off his mask. Cartoon transparently hints - the British love to fight by proxy.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-js_W0tMMifA/UKsyIqnz_cI/AAAAAAAAKQo/VMpBoQWenJk/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-js_W0tMMifA/UKsyIqnz_cI/AAAAAAAAKQo/VMpBoQWenJk/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-005.jpg" width="483" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Behind the scenes". Popular story of Nazi caricatures - Jewish puppeteer and puppets: Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt. The floor was littered with dolls already used, such as Chamberlain.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mo6FXJiRhVc/UKszT3y2XdI/AAAAAAAAKQw/ViJ8MOpF9eA/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mo6FXJiRhVc/UKszT3y2XdI/AAAAAAAAKQw/ViJ8MOpF9eA/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-006.jpg" width="502" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"What are you hiding behind, Franklin" - asks South America. "Our wedding rings." Readers were told a simple message - America uses war to subjugate &nbsp;South America states.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sPDmZdfpT-I/UKsuXdirv_I/AAAAAAAAKQM/fxeUCDbVghc/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sPDmZdfpT-I/UKsuXdirv_I/AAAAAAAAKQM/fxeUCDbVghc/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-003.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I think you need to move, since you're on our side" - Winston Churchill said, clinging to Stalin. One of the first issues of the magazine, which was released on 22 June 1941.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BBUnFiydTnk/UKsw4y1TO4I/AAAAAAAAKQg/0eP1QuaiFZE/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BBUnFiydTnk/UKsw4y1TO4I/AAAAAAAAKQg/0eP1QuaiFZE/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-004.jpg" width="474" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Sword of the Samurai. He will tear any mouth." The reaction of the magazine on December 7, 1941 - Japanese carrier-based strike aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor. .On December 11, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DcLAcnztJ38/UKs1UxN97oI/AAAAAAAAKRA/bMhsYtWlV_o/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DcLAcnztJ38/UKs1UxN97oI/AAAAAAAAKRA/bMhsYtWlV_o/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-008.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;">Trust him to Britain. He just wants to protect you" - said Churchill. Union of British and Russian Bolsheviks &nbsp;seemed unnatural to the Germans</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7aEMdfg7cPc/UKs27VyRjkI/AAAAAAAAKRI/oesGlNeJbjI/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7aEMdfg7cPc/UKs27VyRjkI/AAAAAAAAKRI/oesGlNeJbjI/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-009.jpg" width="472" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">"The results of the winter offensive. He bit steel." Winter 41, the Germans suffered their first defeat of the war. Cartoonists as much as they could, encouraged depressed readers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n1nzrHa4jD0/UKs3sED7adI/AAAAAAAAKRQ/_bnjzpfjNoo/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n1nzrHa4jD0/UKs3sED7adI/AAAAAAAAKRQ/_bnjzpfjNoo/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-011.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The title of this cartoon: "American Giganticism." The caption: "Isn't it wonderful? The motor is so powerful that it flies all by itself, saving us the airplane and pilots."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEhCn27buZ8/UKs5G5GxKqI/AAAAAAAAKRY/IBwNZ3M712U/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-012.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEhCn27buZ8/UKs5G5GxKqI/AAAAAAAAKRY/IBwNZ3M712U/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-012.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"American chandelier." Another of the topic of anti-Semitism.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5TU_So27GkU/UKs5-tu0-9I/AAAAAAAAKRg/G8Zh1T68CXI/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5TU_So27GkU/UKs5-tu0-9I/AAAAAAAAKRg/G8Zh1T68CXI/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-013.jpg" width="464" /></a></div>The magazine celebrates the successes of German submariners. And in the early years of the war, they, indeed, have made impressive progress.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oC--oXs4Bv8/UKs6zUnpERI/AAAAAAAAKRo/lpAf3tpsFlY/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oC--oXs4Bv8/UKs6zUnpERI/AAAAAAAAKRo/lpAf3tpsFlY/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-014.jpg" width="487" /></a></div>Again, readers should cheer "Doenitz wolves." The cartoon overlooked the grim German situation in the spring of 1943, after Stalingrad, and amid escalating Allied air raids. Therefore, the logo at the caricature reads "Bomb Shelter for sinking ships"<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WPCsUXcDnpI/UKs7y-cGT-I/AAAAAAAAKRw/4wzYt3xim-c/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WPCsUXcDnpI/UKs7y-cGT-I/AAAAAAAAKRw/4wzYt3xim-c/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-015.jpg" width="460" /></a></div>"The polyp". The message is clear: the Jews controlled the Allied forces<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-77T4ZwvA800/UKs8Y6l6gDI/AAAAAAAAKR4/dw7OYOmNlYw/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-77T4ZwvA800/UKs8Y6l6gDI/AAAAAAAAKR4/dw7OYOmNlYw/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-016.jpg" width="464" /></a></div>"They eat each other, and a Jew eats them all." Another anti-Semitic caricature.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ga2K9K1wI8I/UKs8-WZ86vI/AAAAAAAAKSA/9JiALOaBkSM/s1600/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ga2K9K1wI8I/UKs8-WZ86vI/AAAAAAAAKSA/9JiALOaBkSM/s640/German-cartoons-ww2-lustige-Blatter-017.jpg" width="464" /></a></div>"Information from the U.S.." American radio, means truth is upside down.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P-GzUefhSrc/UKx1TeDVBfI/AAAAAAAAKSU/hTh6yPibI6s/s1600/German-propaganda-ww2-cartoons-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P-GzUefhSrc/UKx1TeDVBfI/AAAAAAAAKSU/hTh6yPibI6s/s1600/German-propaganda-ww2-cartoons-001.jpg" /></a></div>"Our proposal." IUnited States should build a monument to blacks. Most likely it will be in the &nbsp;way shown below. The Nazis of course hated Blacks too, but the cartoon wanted to say that in America blacks were lynched.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RLL7rPsvlAM/UKx2kvnvyRI/AAAAAAAAKSc/ScVfSzqXKKs/s1600/German-propaganda-ww2-cartoons-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RLL7rPsvlAM/UKx2kvnvyRI/AAAAAAAAKSc/ScVfSzqXKKs/s1600/German-propaganda-ww2-cartoons-002.jpg" /></a></div>.Another anti-Jewish cartoon<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qXoH4m3zmZQ/UKx3bJmeLwI/AAAAAAAAKSk/LynZ5nj77ew/s1600/German-propaganda-ww2-cartoons-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qXoH4m3zmZQ/UKx3bJmeLwI/AAAAAAAAKSk/LynZ5nj77ew/s640/German-propaganda-ww2-cartoons-003.jpg" width="479" /></a></div>"Is not it so cute, Reverend? He wants to become a British Bolshevik commissar, when he grows up." The theme of this cartoon was an alliance between Russia and Britain.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a01DfQXyHtw/UKx5W_ZZ8UI/AAAAAAAAKSs/3RUt0Ium7-U/s1600/German-propaganda-ww2-cartoons-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a01DfQXyHtw/UKx5W_ZZ8UI/AAAAAAAAKSs/3RUt0Ium7-U/s640/German-propaganda-ww2-cartoons-004.jpg" width="472" /></a></div>The caption: “Hey Bimbo, look at the funny factories they have here in Europe!” There was a flurry of cartoons on this theme. Nazi propaganda argued that Americans were sending ignorant black soldiers to destroy the cultured lands of Europe (led by Germany).<br />Text:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bytwerk.com/gpa/lustige.htm">http://www.bytwerk.com/gpa/lustige.htm</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yicEbUeOSYo/UKx7URxUhKI/AAAAAAAAKS0/UOxXpku3T6s/s1600/German-propaganda-ww2-cartoons-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yicEbUeOSYo/UKx7URxUhKI/AAAAAAAAKS0/UOxXpku3T6s/s640/German-propaganda-ww2-cartoons-005.jpg" width="487" /></a></div>&nbsp;"Pumping blood". Soviet Union spilling blood for Jewish benefit is the message<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sMbmPiGDRAQ/UKx7VoBN5iI/AAAAAAAAKS8/28vWIA78CTc/s1600/German-propaganda-ww2-cartoons-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sMbmPiGDRAQ/UKx7VoBN5iI/AAAAAAAAKS8/28vWIA78CTc/s640/German-propaganda-ww2-cartoons-006.jpg" width="494" /></a></div>The caption: “His way to ‘liberate’ Europe.” <i>Mord</i> means murder in German<br /><br />RELATED<br /><br /><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.in/p/cartoonsposters-propaganda-during-world.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cartoons/Posters During WW2</a></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-46111331790292064152012-11-11T23:59:00.000-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.228-07:00Anti-American Japanese Cartoon Films During WW2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first Japanese animated cartoon films were made as propaganda films by Mitsuyo Seo and showed "Peach Boy" Japan's favourite folklore character. <i>Momotaro's Sea Eagles</i> was made in 1942. The sequel&nbsp;<span style="text-align: left;"><i>Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors</i> was released in 1945. Americans and British were called "The White Barbarians" by the Japanese.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">-------------------------------</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Momotaro's Sea Eagles</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q6M_MJRMhSc/UKCrvDLEHlI/AAAAAAAAKPc/PrKWLAvVyAQ/s1600/Momotaro'sseaeaglesjapanesepropagandacartoonanimation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Anti american Japanese cartoon film ww2" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q6M_MJRMhSc/UKCrvDLEHlI/AAAAAAAAKPc/PrKWLAvVyAQ/s1600/Momotaro'sseaeaglesjapanesepropagandacartoonanimation.jpg" title="Anti american Japanese cartoon film during ww2" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>The Plot: </b>Featuring the "Peach Boy" character of Japanese folklore, this film was aimed at children, telling the story of a naval unit consisting of the human Momotarō and several animal species representing the Far Eastern races fighting together for a common goal. In a dramatization of the attack on Pearl Harbor, this force attacks the demons at the island of Onigashima (representing the Americans and British demonized in Japanese propaganda), and the film also utilizes actual footage of the Pearl Harbor attack.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="338" src="http://video.yandex.ru/iframe/valkorn/s9x7lbvi1o.4519/" width="450"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">------------------------</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FJjK8L5j0sI/UKCnWVr9_4I/AAAAAAAAKPI/45_ugipLwVw/s1600/Momotaro'sDivineSeaWarriors.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FJjK8L5j0sI/UKCnWVr9_4I/AAAAAAAAKPI/45_ugipLwVw/s320/Momotaro'sDivineSeaWarriors.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />In April 1945 - in the midst of a bloody battle of Okinawa. No one doubted that the next in line for the invading Americans was the Japanese archipelago. &nbsp;In the battle with the "whites barbarians" (as the Japanese call the Americans) came the film <b>Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors</b> with Momotaro (Peach Boy) - one of the most popular fairy tale characters in Japan. Of course, the Peach Boy and his army easily explain that the "white-skinned barbarians" are not in the right.<br /><br />Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei (桃太郎 海の神兵, <i>lit. Momotaro's Gods-Blessed Sea Warriors or Momotaro, Sacred Sailors</i>) was the first Japanese feature-length animated film. It was directed by <b>Mitsuyo Seo</b>, who was ordered to make a propaganda film for the war by the Japanese Naval Ministry. Shochiku Moving Picture Laboratory shot the 74-minute film in 1944 and screened it on April 12, 1945. It is a sequel to<b> Momotarō no Umiwashi,</b> a 37-minute film released in 1943 by the same director. It is black and white. In English, the film is known as <b>Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors.</b><br /><br /><b>The Plot:</b><i> After completing naval training, a bear cub, a monkey, a pheasant, and a puppy say goodbye to their families. Like the prior film, the movie features the "Peach Boy" character of Japanese folklore. The film is about the surprise maneuver on the Dutch East Indies island of Celebes (now Sulawesi), depicting parachute troops' actions. The monkey, puppy and bear cub are the ones that become parachute jumpers while the pheasant becomes a pilot. The whole movie also depicts the Japanese "liberation of Asia", as proclaimed by the Government at the time.</i><br /><br />The Naval Ministry previously showed Seo Fantasia, a 1940 Disney film. Inspired by this, Seo tried to give dreams to children, as well as to instill the hope for peace, just as he did in the prequel movie, Momotaro's Sea Eagles.<br /><br /><b>For a long time, the film was presumed to have been confiscated and burnt by the American occupation. However, a negative copy of the film was found in Shochiku's Ofuna warehouse in 1983 and was re-released in 1984. A reproduced movie was later screened and the VHS package is now available in Japan.</b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br />RELATED<br /><br /><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.in/p/cartoonsposters-propaganda-during-world.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cartoons/Posters During WW2</a></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-8093396383480972692012-11-06T23:59:00.003-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.370-07:00Superman Cartoon Films During WW2: American Propaganda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zBIjOt-SSdY/UJotCoggb2I/AAAAAAAAKO0/PrRhBhXHBcc/s1600/superman-ww2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zBIjOt-SSdY/UJotCoggb2I/AAAAAAAAKO0/PrRhBhXHBcc/s200/superman-ww2.jpg" width="144" /></a></div><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yes, Superman was very much in action during WW2. The American propaganda machine found Superman irresistible. Here are some Superman cartoon films made during the war.</span></i><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyf3cnwOrK5URPDUueZ0ejNomi9udMofci_E3legsy1VgN19WQ--yGvfgLImjwaW4xcoAPr7g9l27lQq2AHUw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><b>Japoteurs </b>(Episode #10, Released: September 18, 1942) is a blatant war-time cartoon featuring Japanese spies as the protagonist and, thus, serve as direct propaganda against the Japanese. On the inaugural flight of the world's largest bomber, Japanese agents steal the plane, and use it to bomb the airfield preventing pursuit planes from taking off. Seeing the disaster, Superman soars up to the plane and finds that Lois Lane has been seized as a hostage for leverage to force Superman to leave the plane. Eventually, Superman saves Lois, and returns to capture the Japanese spies, only the controls have been destroyed and the plane loses altitude. Realizing that he can't fix the situation from inside the plane, Superman grabs Lois. He puts her on the ground, and flies back to slow the descent of the bomber and manages to avoid a crash.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Text Source</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">:&nbsp;</span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/comics.php?topic=articles/supes-war" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/comics.php?topic=articles/supes-war</a></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>-----------------------</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><b>SECRET AGENT (July 1943)</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwJ8EVnIXEitF3ggw40aq_Bv1FnxVxVP-mc-6SOKDA4cAF3ZIGGTLX6eVlbMKpHf6ufbI617MBUMQhM-eEhNg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>The Plot</b>: Clark Kent helps a Federal agent escape a gang of Nazi saboteurs, and lets himself be captured to learn their plans. He is tied up and taken to their hideout. The agent, a young blonde woman, wants to take information to Washington, D.C. on the largest and most ruthless gang of agents. For six months they thought she was one of them. She has a police escort, but it is attacked. Another group of agents see her drive away. She is trapped on a bridge and nearly crushed in its gears. However Clark frees himself, changes to Superman, traps three of the agents in a lift and saves the agent. He then takes her to Washington.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>-----------------------</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><b>JUNGLE DRUMS (March 1943)</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwHseSgNLLhMwLch-xfEJk8IB35mfbJyFWnzvRaew9Tm2_XWFMUmA8gMhBusmkNxbWjFbG-o0shE2V9rJciUQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>The Plot</b>: Deep in the jungle, a tribe of aboriginal warriors is having a celebration. Their leader is a tall man in a white cloak. Secretly, he's really a Nazi commander, and the tribe's sacred temple is really an underground Nazi outpost. The Nazis eagerly await the arrival of an American convoy with information about an Allied attack. When a military plane flies overhead, the Nazis shoot it down. The commander sends the warriors to search for survivors. At the wreck site, the mortally wounded Lieutenant hands his secret documents to the crew's only survivor, Lois Lane. He tells her to destroy the documents. Then he dies.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lois is caught by the natives and tied up, but frees herself runs into the jungle and avoids capture long enough to hide the documents under a rock. She is then captured and brought back to the temple (outpost) for interrogation where she is tied to a chair. When she refuses to talk, the commander orders the warriors to burn her at the stake. Meanwhile, Clark Kent and another pilot are flying out to meet with Lois's convoy. They spot the wrecked plane not far from the aboriginal village. Clark parachutes down to investigate. Once on the ground, he changes into Superman. He flies to the village. Lois is already being burned at the stake with the commander watching her. Just then, one of the warriors approaches the commander and gives him a set of papers. It's the documents Lois hid in the woods. Overjoyed with success, the commander has his men radio headquarters and send the Nazi U-boats to attack the Allied fleet. Hitler hangs his head in frustration.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Clark arrives and saves Lois from burning to death. When the warriors see a man who can walk through fire, they run in terror. The Nazi soldiers futilely fight back against Superman. Meanwhile, Lois takes a spare white cloak and sneaks in to use the radio. The commander catches her (her ladies shoes aren't well hidden under the cloak), but before he can do anything to stop her, Superman comes to her rescue. She sends a message to the American headquarters, warning them about the Nazi subs. Out at sea, the Nazi subs prepare to decimate the Allied fleet. Before they can attack, they are bombed by a squadron of Allied bombers sent in response to Lois's warnings. The subs are destroyed, and the Allied fleet is saved. Meanwhile In Berlin, Adolf Hitler listens to a newsflash about the defeat of his U-boat force. Angrily, he flips a switch on the radio and hangs his head in frustration as the tune Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition plays as the cartoon fades out.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>-------------</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><b>Destruction Inc. (December 1942)</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzlTFpGej-N_oxL8fWg3K_W4_-VESuVnvn8F8BTYn91eXT_r8Hwc1K5Wh_6zFh8_2YdyEy6APPO6VYzfSIhpA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>The Plot: </b>One night in Metropolis, the elderly night watchman from the Metropolis Munitions Works is found dead in a swamp. When news of the incident reaches the city the next morning, Lois Lane and Clark Kent both decide to grab the story for themselves. Clark talks to Lois, not realizing she has gone and he is talking to Louis, who gets angry at what he thinks was a mistake about his name. Lois decides to go undercover at the plant. As she goes to meet with the plant supervisor in the Personal Building, she meets the new night guard, a kindly, white-haired, old man leaving the Personal MGR. Office.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp;Lois overhears Mr. Jones's plan to blow up the factory. Lois goes undercover as a factory worker. One day, during her shift, she overhears the foreman telling two of the workers that Mr. Jones, one of the supervisors, wants to go over the plan upstairs at 12. During break time, the workers head up to Mr. Jones' office. Lois follows. Up in the office, Lois overhears the workers killed the Watchman and of Mr. Jones' plan to blow up the factory. The switch to the factory's night lights has been rigged to a case of dynamite. When the night guard throws the switch, the whole factory will explode. Just then, Mr. Jones sees Lois outside the office window and opens the blinds, causing Lois to realise she has been seen and run away. He sends the workers to catch her. Lois manages to get away from the workers across a window ledge and beams, but is caught by the foreman who covers her mouth. She is gagged and the workers load her in a test torpedo with another case of dynamite. (As a company rule, test torpoedoes aren't loaded with explosives.) The night guard enters the room and rushes to help Lois.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The foreman stops the night guard by dropping several tons of scrap metal on him. The torpedo with Lois is sent to the testing range and set to be fired at a dummy ship. Back inside the factory, the night guard is struggling to free himself from the rubble. The night guard is really Clark, who has also decided to go undercover. Under the rubble, Clark changes into Superman. As the test torpedo is fired, Clark rushes out to the testing range and saves Lois before the torpedo explodes. He frees her and wakes her, she tells him they are about to blow up the plant. Realizing that they've been discovered, Mr. Jones orders the foreman to throw the night guard's switch now. He reaches the switch, but Superman stops him from throwing it fully.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just when Mr. Jones thinks his plans are ruined, he spots a truck loaded with dynamite. He steers the truck toward the factory in a collision course, then jumps out before impact. Lois warns Superman, who was previously pinned down by the workers, about the truck. Superman catches the truck and sends it over a cliff, saving the factory. The story ends with Mr. Jones, the foreman and the workers being arrested, and Lois revealing that she knew Clark was the night guard. It may have been meant as a subtle irony that Lois was able to see through this disguise easily but could not figure out that Clark was Superman as well.</div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>------------------</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><b>The Eleventh Hour (November 1942)</b></i></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxcNHo3jxgdzQNI_Unw7n2iMju5WG0l7A0V8qb9yuMQ3r3i0oVmtUccEporJ0JyiJqm_DAIUlGyR0wHlmyQ1w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Plot of <b>The Eleventh Hour</b>: While Clark Kent and Lois Lane are prisoners in wartime Japan, Superman becomes a saboteur. In the Japanese City of Yokohama the Eleventh Hour strikes and a ship is turned over. Superman escapes searchlights while sirens go off and goes through a window, putting a barred grille back in place. Lois asks if Clark is awake, to which he asks who could sleep through a racket like this. Lois says the racket has been happening every night since they have been interned. Clark says it may be sabotage, which Lois also hopes. She wonders if Superman is responsible. A guard tells them to stop talking. A Japanese Official says the sabotage must stop at once. As the Eleventh Hour strikes a Japanese looks at his watch and leaves the window. Superman leaves the same room by removing the grille and drags a ship over into the sea. Sabotage happens every night at the Eleventh Hour, and the Official again says the sabotage must stop. Lois sees Superman as he leaps between buildings. She says outside Clark's room that it is Superman, she just saw him, and the Japanese have a 'swell chance' of catching him. However a guard covers her mouth from behind and drags her out. Notices are put up saying 'Warning! Superman One more act of Sabotage and the American Girl Reporter will be executed at once'. Superman sends another ship into the sea, but is burred under steel girders. Lois is taken out for execution with her hands tied. As Superman digs himself out she walks against the wall and is blindfolded. Superman sees the notice and is fired on, but leaps away. He shields Lois just as the bullets are fired, and leaps away with her. On a ship landing in America Lois is interviewed. She is asked by a Reporter if Clark got away, but says he is still over there but Superman promised to look after him. As the Eleventh Hour strikes in Japan there is another explosion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>RELATED<br /><br /><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.in/p/cartoonsposters-propaganda-during-world.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cartoons/Posters During WW2</a></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-39404298435049149372012-11-04T23:14:00.000-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.201-07:00British Propaganda Paintings During WW2: War and Soldiers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RSdiv3DypjY/UJdWUbeS3XI/AAAAAAAAKME/3n5MyOUrboU/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-arms-for-Russia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="British propaganda posters during ww2 Arms aid Russia Murmansk" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RSdiv3DypjY/UJdWUbeS3XI/AAAAAAAAKME/3n5MyOUrboU/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-arms-for-Russia.jpg" title="British propaganda posters during ww2 Arms for Russia Murmansk" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Painting depicting a British convoy on way to the Russian port pf Murmansk with arms for the Red Army. </b>&nbsp;("Convoy of British merchant ships" by Blake, Post-1941)</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7xuJEXIWvvU/UJdXkitMjvI/AAAAAAAAKMM/hvLYPKWdID4/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-ships-Mediterranean.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="British navy ww2 propaganda poster foster" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7xuJEXIWvvU/UJdXkitMjvI/AAAAAAAAKMM/hvLYPKWdID4/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-ships-Mediterranean.jpg" title="British navy ww2 propaganda poster foster" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>British warships sail in the Mediterranean Sea. Italy has a red cross in the map, suggesting that in 1943 the country was out of the war after the Allied Invasion. </b>"Warships sailing through the Mediterranean" by Forster, Unknown date</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HDWDHvk6wd4/UJdYrStfHAI/AAAAAAAAKMU/h7GASRsFZic/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-Mulberry-harbor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="mulberry harbor d day" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HDWDHvk6wd4/UJdYrStfHAI/AAAAAAAAKMU/h7GASRsFZic/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-Mulberry-harbor.jpg" title="mulberry harbor d day" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A tug towing a section of Mulberry harbour loaded with trucks across the English Channel for D-Day. The section in question was known as the ‘Spud' pierhead. The four columns were legs that would be secured to the sea bed, allowing the platform to rise and fall as the tide came in and out. This would then have been attached to floating roadways over which supplies unloaded onto the harbour could be driven to the beach and then inland. For the D-Day landings to succeed the Allies needed a harbour to supply the invading troops with arms, ammunition and rations. It would be some time before a significant harbour could be captured on the French mainland. The Allies decided to construct two artificial harbours that could be towed across the Channel and would be able handle a significant volume of supplies until a major port was captured. </b>"A tug towing a section of Mulberry harbour" by Rowland Hilder, 1939-1945</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vu5eDKIkUU8/UJdZe5CoR8I/AAAAAAAAKMg/ZRJXZ4WQ9F4/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-Hawker-Hurricane.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="british warplanes protect atlantic convoys ww2" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vu5eDKIkUU8/UJdZe5CoR8I/AAAAAAAAKMg/ZRJXZ4WQ9F4/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-Hawker-Hurricane.jpg" title="british warplanes protect atlantic convoys ww2" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>This painting by Nockolds shows a Hawker Hurricane approaching an escort carrier in preparation for landing. The impact of airpower in protecting the transatlantic convoys – Britain's lifeline – was quickly realised. Aircraft carriers were, however, extremely costly and slow to produce and Britain's front line carriers were tied up with offensive operations in other theatres. The solution was the escort carrier, usually a converted merchantman whose superstructure could be removed and replaced with a rudimentary flight deck. The introduction of a substantial number of escort carriers helped bridge the air gap in mid- Atlantic where long-range air escorts from Britain or Canada were unable to operate. </b>"Hawker Hurricane approaching an escort carrier" by Roy Nockolds, 1942</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CFtbKP8ncJQ/UJda3QGHW8I/AAAAAAAAKMo/SgpdPLBK2Ac/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-coastal-artillery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CFtbKP8ncJQ/UJda3QGHW8I/AAAAAAAAKMo/SgpdPLBK2Ac/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-coastal-artillery.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>British coastal artillery on the Dover coast firing away. </b>"British coastal artillery" by Terence Cuneo, Pre-1944</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zYXGw1Or35A/UJdbjo2lYdI/AAAAAAAAKMw/mIZ7vv7Rxes/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-soldiers-desert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="454" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zYXGw1Or35A/UJdbjo2lYdI/AAAAAAAAKMw/mIZ7vv7Rxes/s640/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-soldiers-desert.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>British soldiers in the desert. The image is partially peeled back to see the same place in the peaceful future, as an ideal tourist destination, secured by those who fought for the place against the Nazis. The tourist bus is labelled London – Algiers – Baghdad – Calcutta.</b>. "British troops in action in the western desert" by Roy Nockolds, 1943</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AzLHRdcRQDs/UJdcg5sMVmI/AAAAAAAAKM4/pUdrp2zkuaY/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-anti-tank-gun-Libya.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="battle in north africa propaganda poster" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AzLHRdcRQDs/UJdcg5sMVmI/AAAAAAAAKM4/pUdrp2zkuaY/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-anti-tank-gun-Libya.jpg" title="battle in north africa propaganda poster" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A British anti-tank gun in the desert of Libya..</b> "British anti tank gun" by Harold Pym, 1943</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hb_3ABQvDRM/UJddhy9EQFI/AAAAAAAAKNA/7FylH6a6H9Y/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-Matilda-tank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="british matilda tank" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hb_3ABQvDRM/UJddhy9EQFI/AAAAAAAAKNA/7FylH6a6H9Y/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-Matilda-tank.jpg" title="british matilda tank" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A British Matilda tank in Libya.</b> "British Matilda tanks" Artist unknown, Post-1942</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HDMXNJXiH7I/UJdeyD7hqUI/AAAAAAAAKNQ/aXzjDuf7XIc/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-parachutists.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="british paratroopers" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HDMXNJXiH7I/UJdeyD7hqUI/AAAAAAAAKNQ/aXzjDuf7XIc/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-parachutists.jpg" title="british paratroopers" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>British soldiers from the Parachute regiment come out from gliders and engage the Germans in fighting..</b> "Parachute Regiment" by Leslie Oliphant, Date unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CxV5KT_0Fbc/UJddigvAbMI/AAAAAAAAKNI/iSHtONV8YRI/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-general.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="466" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CxV5KT_0Fbc/UJddigvAbMI/AAAAAAAAKNI/iSHtONV8YRI/s640/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-general.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A British general with binoculars as Sherman tanks trundle and fighter planes fly over the skies.</b> "A British General, holding binoculars" Artist unknown, Date unknown<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Boogc_IeBRo/UJdf3MNcksI/AAAAAAAAKNY/p41erwL3iL4/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-Lancaster-bombers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Daylight raid Lancaster bombers Schneider armaments factory Le Creusot (France)" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Boogc_IeBRo/UJdf3MNcksI/AAAAAAAAKNY/p41erwL3iL4/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-Lancaster-bombers.jpg" title="Daylight raid by Lancaster bombers on the Schneider armaments factory in Le Creusot (France)" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Daylight raid by Lancaster bombers on the Schneider armaments factory in Le Creusot (France), carried out on 17 October 1942.</b> "Daylight raid by Lancaster bombers" by O'Connell, Post October-1942</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GD_cUFq2mZM/UJdgjUTiRTI/AAAAAAAAKNg/Z0UXOLvHyKk/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-Japanese-flying-boats-destroyed-by-RAF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="japanese warplanes destroyed by british bombers" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GD_cUFq2mZM/UJdgjUTiRTI/AAAAAAAAKNg/Z0UXOLvHyKk/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-Japanese-flying-boats-destroyed-by-RAF.jpg" title="japanese warplanes destroyed by british bombers" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Japanese flying boats being destroyed" by Roy Nockolds, Date unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BtOLNdTcxbk/UJdhMKglgaI/AAAAAAAAKNo/9MRw4tNQFHA/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-Bristol-Blenheims.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="British Blenheim bombers bomb cologne 1941" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BtOLNdTcxbk/UJdhMKglgaI/AAAAAAAAKNo/9MRw4tNQFHA/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-Bristol-Blenheims.jpg" title="British Blenheim bombers bomb cologne 1941" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Bristol Blenheims conducting a daylight raid on the German power stations at Knapsack and Quadrath near Cologne, 12 August 1941..</b> "Bristol Blenheims" by James Gardner, 1941</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vZRiBDbk2HY/UJdh-zgfADI/AAAAAAAAKNw/q4hsltn47YA/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-bombing-German-U-Boat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="german u-boat surrenders atlantic" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vZRiBDbk2HY/UJdh-zgfADI/AAAAAAAAKNw/q4hsltn47YA/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-bombing-German-U-Boat.jpg" title="german u-boat surrenders atlantic" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The image depicts a U-boat surrendering to British aircraft. This image was used in the series: ‘Back Them Up', and extra text identifies the U-boat: “The Capture of the German Submarine U-570 by Lockheed Hudson of British Coastal Command”. U-570, first commissioned on May 15 1941, was captured by the British on August 27 1941 in the North Atlantic, south of Iceland, after being damaged by a British Hudson aircraft (Squadron 269/S). The trawler Kingston Agathe boarded the U-boat on August 28 1941, and towed it to Thorlaks-hafn, Iceland. There were no casualties, and the boat became the British submarine HMS Graph on September 19 1941.</b>. "German Submarine U-570" by W.Krogman, 1941</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GpD47lGLH0c/UJdjAOynO4I/AAAAAAAAKN4/n004sh1xIPo/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-bombing-cologne.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Night bombing of Cologne" border="0" height="362" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GpD47lGLH0c/UJdjAOynO4I/AAAAAAAAKN4/n004sh1xIPo/s640/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-bombing-cologne.jpg" title="Night bombing of Cologne" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Bombing of Cologne. </b>"Night bombing raid on Cologne" by W.Krogman, Date unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ch7Sv2cBTHE/UJdjvLLrbSI/AAAAAAAAKOA/4qVtqIXYiuc/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-bomber-attacked.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ch7Sv2cBTHE/UJdjvLLrbSI/AAAAAAAAKOA/4qVtqIXYiuc/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-bomber-attacked.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A British bomber under attack by a German plane.</b> "British Manchester bomber defends itself" by W.Krogman, 1939-1945</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-faphElh9esY/UJdkiCmOBfI/AAAAAAAAKOI/W6YobicYq9U/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-Sterling-bombers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="British Sterling bomber bombs Germany" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-faphElh9esY/UJdkiCmOBfI/AAAAAAAAKOI/W6YobicYq9U/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-Sterling-bombers.jpg" title="British Sterling bomber over Germany" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A British Sterling bomber attacks a German industrial target.</b> "British Stirling heavy bombers" by W. Krogman, 1941</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-19UOQ4krbkU/UJdllxmwm-I/AAAAAAAAKOQ/MPHSUWouJhY/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-Battle-of-Britain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-19UOQ4krbkU/UJdllxmwm-I/AAAAAAAAKOQ/MPHSUWouJhY/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-Battle-of-Britain.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A German Stuka and a Heinkel shot down by British warplanes.</b> "Battle of Britain" by Oliphant, Leslie, 1940</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-168hQK5MxTU/UJdmpEeAd6I/AAAAAAAAKOY/HXJGMoXUYuI/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-pilot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-168hQK5MxTU/UJdmpEeAd6I/AAAAAAAAKOY/HXJGMoXUYuI/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-British-pilot.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A British fighter pilot.</b> "British fighter pilot" by F.Matania, Date unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qeyqR2-MPic/UJdmqOGZMdI/AAAAAAAAKOg/HC4af3QAaDI/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-attacking-Japanese-troop-convoys.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="British warplane attacks Japanese convoy" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qeyqR2-MPic/UJdmqOGZMdI/AAAAAAAAKOg/HC4af3QAaDI/s1600/British-propaganda-posters-painting-ww2-attacking-Japanese-troop-convoys.jpg" title="British warplane attacks Japanese convoy" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A British Hurricane fighter attacking a Japanese troop convoy in jungle country (possibly Burma).</b> "Japanese troop convoy" by Roy Nockolds, Post-1941</td></tr></tbody></table>Image Sources:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/prop/the_fighting_forces/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/prop/the_fighting_forces/</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">RELATED</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://incredibleimages4u.blogspot.in/2012/11/british-propaganda-posters-during-ww2.html" target="_blank">British Propaganda Posters During WW2: Part 1</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://historyimages.blogspot.in/2012/10/british-propaganda-posters-during-ww2.html" target="_blank">British Propaganda Posters During WW2: Part 2</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.in/p/cartoonsposters-propaganda-during-world.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cartoons/Posters During WW2</a></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-66717451275140352162012-07-02T01:19:00.000-07:002016-09-11T23:00:55.332-07:00Men And Machines: German Army During WW1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The Great War of 1914-18. went down in history as the first armed conflict with massive use of the latest technical resources and achievements of civilization for extermination. &nbsp;The debut of tanks and chemical weapons took place then. Guns became larger and long-range, operetta gala uniforms gave way to the muddy colors of khaki.</i></b></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Here are some images of the German Army during WW1: Both men and machines.</i></b></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HZLjDfnPqdI/T_FJzujfP8I/AAAAAAAAKJQ/uSfnCu1fESg/s1600/german-army-soldiers-arms-ww1-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="394" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HZLjDfnPqdI/T_FJzujfP8I/AAAAAAAAKJQ/uSfnCu1fESg/s640/german-army-soldiers-arms-ww1-001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>German soldiers with captured machine guns and a car on a rail carriage</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PJ3T-subznA/T_FO7hGwHyI/AAAAAAAAKJc/84BmSJ8dYDs/s1600/german+anti-aircraft-gun-ww1-balloon-defense-gun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="404" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PJ3T-subznA/T_FO7hGwHyI/AAAAAAAAKJc/84BmSJ8dYDs/s640/german+anti-aircraft-gun-ww1-balloon-defense-gun.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>German anti-aircraft guns were called "Balloon defense guns" (</i></b></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>Ballon-Abwehr-Kanonen- BAK). They were to shoot down observation balloons.</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ckjB9rXZwXE/T_FQwBT4VYI/AAAAAAAAKJk/KSaNyRdJ-a4/s1600/Ballon-Abwehr-Kanone-balloon-defnse-gun-BAK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="462" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ckjB9rXZwXE/T_FQwBT4VYI/AAAAAAAAKJk/KSaNyRdJ-a4/s640/Ballon-Abwehr-Kanone-balloon-defnse-gun-BAK.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>The balloon-busting BAK again</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B8g9ztMi9tg/T_FRcnG10VI/AAAAAAAAKJs/83FTsReM7CI/s1600/British-warplane-ww1-RE18-V12-engines.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B8g9ztMi9tg/T_FRcnG10VI/AAAAAAAAKJs/83FTsReM7CI/s640/British-warplane-ww1-RE18-V12-engines.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>The Ballon Abwehr Kanone were meant to shoot down balloons but they shot a British warplane. Wreck of a RE8 fitted with V12 engines. The Royal Aircraft Factory (R.E.8 ) was a British two-seat biplane reconnaissance and bomber aircraft of the First World War designed by John Kenworthy.</i></b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sKnthdzg06g/T_FTOGh5pyI/AAAAAAAAKJ0/KcIFm9Im6u4/s1600/LVGB.11-German-warplane-ww1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Crashed German warplane" border="0" height="396" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sKnthdzg06g/T_FTOGh5pyI/AAAAAAAAKJ0/KcIFm9Im6u4/s640/LVGB.11-German-warplane-ww1.jpg" title="Crashed German warplane" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>This German plane LVG B.11 has crashed neatly. And it did not burst into flames. LVG had been involved in the operation of dirigibles before it started design, in 1912, of the company's first original design, the B.I. The B.I was an unequal-span two-seat biplane with a fixed tailskid landing gear. It was powered by a nose-mounted 80 kW (100 hp) Mercedes D.I engine. After entering service an improved variant, the B.II was developed with a cut-out in the upper wing to improve visibility for the pilot in the rear cockpit and fitted with a 90 kW (120 hp) Mercedes D.II engine. The B.II entered service in 1915 and although mainly used as a trainer it was also used for unarmed reconnaissance and scouting duties. A further variant was the B.III which had structural strengthening to allow it to be used as a trainer.</i></b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORBLB4_eL_w/T_FVRkM24ZI/AAAAAAAAKJ8/TBgc25Ra4ig/s1600/german-field-artillery-mounted-on-a-truck-1916.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORBLB4_eL_w/T_FVRkM24ZI/AAAAAAAAKJ8/TBgc25Ra4ig/s640/german-field-artillery-mounted-on-a-truck-1916.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>A German field artillery gun is carried on a truck. 1916.</i></b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PJVK5AH_co8/T_FWSYlUxsI/AAAAAAAAKKE/jiq5Ug9drMg/s1600/german-army-truck-ww1-carrying-soldiers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="German truck carrying soldiers" border="0" height="428" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PJVK5AH_co8/T_FWSYlUxsI/AAAAAAAAKKE/jiq5Ug9drMg/s640/german-army-truck-ww1-carrying-soldiers.jpg" title="A German truck carrying soldiers" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>The trucks were used mainly for carrying troops. Note that the truck had no power steering and no pneumatic inflatable tyres of today. No weakling could drive the truck.</i></b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kNUYW79v2-4/T_FYDJKuB9I/AAAAAAAAKKM/2MhHZRHlJo8/s1600/German-army-trucks-1917-parked.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="402" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kNUYW79v2-4/T_FYDJKuB9I/AAAAAAAAKKM/2MhHZRHlJo8/s640/German-army-trucks-1917-parked.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>1917. German army trucks.</i></b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y9tnlNau8AE/T_FY0W_a59I/AAAAAAAAKKU/4E_eVQ80XKw/s1600/German-staff-car-accident-Munich-1915.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y9tnlNau8AE/T_FY0W_a59I/AAAAAAAAKKU/4E_eVQ80XKw/s640/German-staff-car-accident-Munich-1915.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>This German staff car met with an accident in Munich in 1915. The driver proudly poses for an photograph.</i></b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-feKTEIQtqts/UA5F0luLLuI/AAAAAAAAKKg/cx7ilCCvdKM/s1600/German-21-cm-artillery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="german 21 cm gun towed tractor" border="0" height="396" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-feKTEIQtqts/UA5F0luLLuI/AAAAAAAAKKg/cx7ilCCvdKM/s640/German-21-cm-artillery.jpg" title="German 21 cm gun towed by a tractor" width="640" /></a></div>&nbsp;<b>A German 21 cm gun towed by a tractor</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NL3MYDXqmbs/UA5F1wL-JvI/AAAAAAAAKKo/AlKu3sZszrQ/s1600/German-military-school-cadets-ww1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="398" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NL3MYDXqmbs/UA5F1wL-JvI/AAAAAAAAKKo/AlKu3sZszrQ/s640/German-military-school-cadets-ww1.jpg" title="German military school fool around" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Cadets from a German military school fool around</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F-5CeGf9Fe8/UA5F24QMQTI/AAAAAAAAKKw/B5vpKrJFHEE/s1600/propaganda-picture-ww1-german.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F-5CeGf9Fe8/UA5F24QMQTI/AAAAAAAAKKw/B5vpKrJFHEE/s640/propaganda-picture-ww1-german.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>A German propaganda picture. The foes are soldiers of the Allied armies including a bearded Cossack</i></b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PoeX_cftuKE/UA5HBSYIDqI/AAAAAAAAKK4/RolOUmFwEHA/s1600/german-soldiers-ww1-destroyed+british+25cm-gun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="408" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PoeX_cftuKE/UA5HBSYIDqI/AAAAAAAAKK4/RolOUmFwEHA/s640/german-soldiers-ww1-destroyed+british+25cm-gun.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>Two German soldiers pose against a destroyed 25cm British gun</i></b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1OV1ZLgxW4U/UA5HlwMqOVI/AAAAAAAAKLA/Voj8T2fsc6c/s1600/german-soldier-british-tank-ww1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="German soldier with destroyed British tank Battle Arras" border="0" height="412" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1OV1ZLgxW4U/UA5HlwMqOVI/AAAAAAAAKLA/Voj8T2fsc6c/s640/german-soldier-british-tank-ww1.jpg" title="German soldier with a destroyed British tank Battle Arras" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>A German soldier looks at a British tank during the Battle of Arras</i></b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ooFB_ySORXU/UA5I6v5PUrI/AAAAAAAAKLI/xPMTVovhWSg/s1600/german-soldier-poses-against-destroyed-french-tank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="German soldier destroyed French tank, Schneider CA1" border="0" height="406" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ooFB_ySORXU/UA5I6v5PUrI/AAAAAAAAKLI/xPMTVovhWSg/s640/german-soldier-poses-against-destroyed-french-tank.jpg" title="A German soldier poses against a destroyed French tank, Schneider CA1" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>A German soldier poses against a destroyed French tank, Schneider CA1 which was the first tank the French made.</i></b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KDvnbQHvvCI/UA5JrCHKTrI/AAAAAAAAKLU/hQj8Y5hTVdM/s1600/German+monster-A7V-captured-Paris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Elfrida German Armored train" border="0" height="416" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KDvnbQHvvCI/UA5JrCHKTrI/AAAAAAAAKLU/hQj8Y5hTVdM/s640/German+monster-A7V-captured-Paris.jpg" title="Elfrida German Armored train" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>A trophy in Paris. "Elfrida". A monster A7V vehicle.</i></b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">WHAT WAS A7V?</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The A7V was a tank introduced by Germany in 1918, near the end of World War I. One hundred vehicles were ordered during the spring of 1918, but only 20 were delivered. It was nicknamed "The Moving Fortress" by the British because of the shape of the hull. They were used in action from March to October of that year, and were the only tanks produced by Germany in World War I to be used in operations</span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nBrqqimEIP8/UA5KreH5yMI/AAAAAAAAKLk/pO5ZeQGnTb8/s1600/German-guns-Champs-Elysees-Paris-1918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ww1 Captured German guns Paris Elysees" border="0" height="406" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nBrqqimEIP8/UA5KreH5yMI/AAAAAAAAKLk/pO5ZeQGnTb8/s640/German-guns-Champs-Elysees-Paris-1918.jpg" title="ww1 Captured German guns at Paris" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>A mountain of German guns at Champs Elysees, Paris in 1918.</i></b></span></span><br /><br /></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-18968099141121709702011-12-28T06:02:00.000-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.104-07:00WAFFEN SS IN ACTION: Rare, Unseen Pictures: Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="color: #990000; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c4lsLtCCLho/Twp_Iny-e8I/AAAAAAAAKIY/6n_ja-Gybys/s1600/waffen_SS_color_Pictures_images_photos_002_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c4lsLtCCLho/Twp_Iny-e8I/AAAAAAAAKIY/6n_ja-Gybys/s1600/waffen_SS_color_Pictures_images_photos_002_e.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gALtsx05_Gc/Twp_JYA_O5I/AAAAAAAAKIc/0N8aQKdjrqI/s1600/waffen_SS_color_Pictures_images_photos_004_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gALtsx05_Gc/Twp_JYA_O5I/AAAAAAAAKIc/0N8aQKdjrqI/s1600/waffen_SS_color_Pictures_images_photos_004_e.jpg" /></a></div><i><span style="font-size: large;">"Meine Ehre heißt Treue"("My honour is loyalty")</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Waffen SS Motto&nbsp;</b><br /><br />Literary it means "My honour is called loyalty" but the meaning is closer to "My honour is loyalty". The Motto comes from Hitler's letter to SS kommendant Kurt Daluegelle in 1931. There was sentence-ending "...SS-man, your loyalty is your honour" and Heinrich Himmler took that sentence from letter and came up with that motto. That motto is forbidden and punishable by law in Germany and Austria even today<b>.</b><br />From <a href="http://www.military-quotes.com/forum/motto-waffen-ss-t82237.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Military-quotes.com</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nxGxM8FjW6w/TvsfcOwa-uI/AAAAAAAAKEE/i_H9nSjy44w/s1600/waffen-SS-soldiers-rare-unseen-pictures-images--001_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nxGxM8FjW6w/TvsfcOwa-uI/AAAAAAAAKEE/i_H9nSjy44w/s1600/waffen-SS-soldiers-rare-unseen-pictures-images--001_e.jpg" /></a></div><b>SS soldiers in action on the western front in 1940</b><br /><br /><b>SOME DOPE ON WAFFEN SS</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>The best Waffen SS Divisions were Liebstandarte and Das Reich, along with Totenkopf</b></i>. In other words the 3 divisions that made up the II SS Panzer Korps. Up until mid 1944 they could be considered as elite status divisions and were well regarded by German commanders as 'fire brigade' formations. In other words, formations that could be reliably used to plug holes and prevent Soviet breakthroughs.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>The Totenkopf were certainly not just fancy concentration camp guards. As part of II SS Panzer Korps they formed the main offensive wedge of 4th Panzerarmee at Kursk</b></i>, and along with the other two SS divisions achieved the furthest penetration of any German formation. This was mainly due to the tactics of Hausser but make no mistake, Totenkopf in 1943 were as good as any other Panzer Division in the German Army and better than a good many of them.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Many of the other Waffen SS units you mentioned were formed towards the end of the 3rd Reich and were not of the same quality as the big 3. Hitlerjugend for example was formed by transferring a core of veteran NCO's from Liebstandarte to look after largely green troops, most of them Hitler Youth, hence the name. <i><b>The Hitlerjugend did actually fight very well, but it was no elite formation.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.military-quotes.com/forum/greatest-military-units-all-time-page9-t22730.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">military-quotes.com</a><b></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Scu2wqgJLFc/TvsfoADO3EI/AAAAAAAAKEQ/NPotwfycgm4/s1600/waffen-SS-milking-dutch-cow-1940-rare-unseen-pictures-images_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS soldier milking cow Netherlands 1940" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Scu2wqgJLFc/TvsfoADO3EI/AAAAAAAAKEQ/NPotwfycgm4/s1600/waffen-SS-milking-dutch-cow-1940-rare-unseen-pictures-images_e.jpg" title="Waffen SS soldier milking a cow in Netherlands 1940" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Milching a Dutch cow in 1940. Netherlands.</b><br /><b><br /></b>THE SPIRIT OF EQUALITY<br /><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The elite esprit de corps so commonly found in the Waffen SS compared to other Wehrmacht units was as much a product of leadership as selection. The relationship between officers and enlisted men in the Waffen SS differed greatly from the class separation found within the German Army. In the Wehrmacht, less than two percent of the officers were of ‘peasant stock', whereas 90% of the Waffen SS commanders had been brought up on the land. <b><i>Waffen SS officers deliberately fostered a close relationship between themselves and their men. Expected to rise from the ranks, Waffen SS officers earned the respect and loyalty of their men by leading from the front and never asking them to do anything that they would not do themselves.</i></b> For many, this bond between brothers in arms was the most memorable aspect of serving as part of the Waffen SS. "My most enduring memory of the Waffen-SS", according to SS Veteran Gerd Rommel,<b><i> "was the spirit with which we were all filled. We were all just around 18 years old, and our officers just 20 to 30 years old. Our Divisional commander, SS-Brigadefuhrer Heinz Harmel was then just 38 years old. The troops never addressed him as ‘Herr General', just as ‘Brigadefuhrer'. It was this spirit of equality which made us all feel so proud."</i></b></div>From <a href="http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/waffenss.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Militaryhistoryonline</a><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_skhWDXTvsA?rel=0" width="400"></iframe> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E91gtvuJ3BU/TvsfrfNTGYI/AAAAAAAAKEY/lyDYuKUMkT8/s1600/waffen-SS-soldiers-on-a-truck-western-front-1940-K98k-mauser-rifle_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E91gtvuJ3BU/TvsfrfNTGYI/AAAAAAAAKEY/lyDYuKUMkT8/s1600/waffen-SS-soldiers-on-a-truck-western-front-1940-K98k-mauser-rifle_e.jpg" /></a></div>&nbsp;<b>SS soldiers on a truck on the western front in 1940. They carry the standard Wehrmacht issue, K98k Mauser rifles</b><br /><br />THE K98K MAUSER RIFLE<br /><br /><b> </b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b> </b>The<b> Karabiner 98 Kurz</b> (often abbreviated <b>Kar98k, K98, or K98k</b>) was a bolt action rifle chambered for the 8x57mm IS/7.92×57mm IS cartridge that was<b> adopted as the standard service rifle in 1935 by the German Wehrmacht.</b> It was one of the final developments in the long line of Mauser military rifles. Although supplemented by semi- and fully automatic rifles during World War II, <b>it remained the primary German service rifle until the end of World War II in 1945.</b></div><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nAOnl2zOpJU/Tvsfti_O5kI/AAAAAAAAKEg/UbBmWH6_VKg/s1600/waffen-SS-soldiers-rare-unseen-pictures-images-MG-34-machine-gun_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nAOnl2zOpJU/Tvsfti_O5kI/AAAAAAAAKEg/UbBmWH6_VKg/s1600/waffen-SS-soldiers-rare-unseen-pictures-images-MG-34-machine-gun_e.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YWXBCuUOSHU?rel=0" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">For example, General Eberhard von Mackensen, commander of the IIIrd panzer Corps, wrote of the Leibstandarte, "Every division wishes it had the Leibstandarte as its neighbor. They are a genuine elite formation that I am happy and proud to have under my command." The Waffen SS divisions had indeed achieved the goals set by their Fuhrer. They had proven themselves in combat and gained the prestige and confidence of the German Army. In view of this, the Leibstandarte, the Totenkopfdivision, Wiking and the Das Reich were reorganized into panzer grenadier divisions, complete with tank battalions. Hitler also authorized the creation of more SS divisions and the SS Panzer Corps. As the tide began to turn against Hitler, with the fall of Stalingrad and the loss of North Africa, he placed a greater demand upon the men of the SS who where,<b><i> "an extraordinary body of men, devoted to an idea, loyal unto death."</i></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MvKhSuapCRs/Tv1aa41NMXI/AAAAAAAAKFs/nEzagRo5SOk/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="486" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MvKhSuapCRs/Tv1aa41NMXI/AAAAAAAAKFs/nEzagRo5SOk/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-005.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>With the German defeat at Kursk, the Soviets gained the strategic initiative for good. The subsequent Soviet offensive during the summer of 1943 proved devastating for the Wehrmacht . During the retreat, the SS formations became the "fire brigades" in the East. As motorized divisions, they were routinely rushed to the critical points on the front to seal a breach in the German lines or slow down the Soviet onslaught long enough for other formations to escape. They had in the words of General Wohler, commander of the 8th Army, <b><i>"stood like a rock in the Army, while the enemy broke through in neighboring sectors."</i></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H006zu08EYI/Tv1adssPShI/AAAAAAAAKF8/Y4teXEDDvLU/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-anti-tank-gun-Pak-35-36.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="498" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H006zu08EYI/Tv1adssPShI/AAAAAAAAKF8/Y4teXEDDvLU/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-anti-tank-gun-Pak-35-36.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>A Waffen SS soldier hurries forward with his MG 34 machine gun. 1940</b><br /><br /><b><br /></b>&nbsp;IT WAS SAID OF THE SS TOTENKOPF....<br /><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"The SS man's ability to remain calm in the face of disaster, his willingness to fight on against impossible odds, his lust for killing Russians, and most important, his readiness to perish rather than retreat and appear weaker than his racial enemy were all qualities that proved crucial throughout the war in retrieving hopeless situations; they became hallmarks of the Totenkopf divisions's performance wherever it fought."</span></b></div><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aNbfLUxw3OA/Tv1RHhcIanI/AAAAAAAAKEw/kdCXy_tUAmI/s1600/WAFFEN-SS-kurt-eicke-karl-ulrich1944_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="457" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aNbfLUxw3OA/Tv1RHhcIanI/AAAAAAAAKEw/kdCXy_tUAmI/s640/WAFFEN-SS-kurt-eicke-karl-ulrich1944_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>1944. Karl Ullrich (Center) with Kurt Franke (Right). Men of the&nbsp;</b><span style="text-align: left;"><b>6th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment Theodor Eicke</b></span><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></span><br />WHO WERE THESE GUYS?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Karl Ullrich</b>&nbsp;was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class for bravery during the Battle of France, then transferred to the Totenkopf on the Eastern Front in 1941. He was awarded the Knight's Cross for his leadership and bravery during the battles of the Demyansk pocket in February 1942 and in October 1944 was given command of the 6th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment Theodor Eicke and was awarded the Oakleaves while in command. Promoted to Standartenführer (Colonel) he was given command of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking for the final battles of the war in Hungary. A short time before the end of the war he was promoted to Oberführer and he surrendered to the Russians in May 1945.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Kurt Franke</b>&nbsp;was a Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II. He was also one of only 631 men to be awarded the very rare Close Combat Clasp in Gold<br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oOGKpfoD65Y/Tv1VM3BEPwI/AAAAAAAAKE8/ou85dzvdI9Q/s1600/waffen_SS_hitler_youth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oOGKpfoD65Y/Tv1VM3BEPwI/AAAAAAAAKE8/ou85dzvdI9Q/s1600/waffen_SS_hitler_youth.jpg" /></a></div><span style="text-align: left;"><b>These guys are from the Hitler Youth (HitlerJugend) Division. One of them tends to a comrade.</b></span><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></span>&nbsp;WAFFEN SS DELAYED THE ALLIED ADVANCE IN THE WEST<br /><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The Waffen SS divisions were once again nearly bled white during these terrible battles. They were unable to stop the advancing tide of the Allies overwhelming personnel and materiel superiority.<b><i> What they did accomplish was to significantly delay the Allied advance. It is doubtful that the German defenses in France would have held as long as they did without the courage, determination, and overall combat power of the Waffen SS divisions. </i></b>General Eisenhower remarked that, "while the SS elements as usual fought to annihilation, the ordinary German infantry gave themselves up in ever-increasing numbers." This reckless fanaticism in the face of defeat was exactly what Hitler needed from the troops who were to execute his planned counter offensive in the West. <br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aHLRZmZcoTM/Tv1W_CkvyRI/AAAAAAAAKFI/jNN7vy5_wjQ/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aHLRZmZcoTM/Tv1W_CkvyRI/AAAAAAAAKFI/jNN7vy5_wjQ/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-001.jpg" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;This SS man smilingly poses for the camera.</b><br /><b><br /></b>EVEN FIGHTING SPIRIT GOES ONLY SO FAR....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">In describing the Ardennes offensive, one grenadier remarked that, "Three years ago we would probably have stormed forward during the night in order not to allow the enemy any time to recover. But now after nearly five years of savage fighting things move much more slowly . . .<b><i> The men are all right but tanks and guns need fuel and shells and it does not matter how much fighting spirit there is, without those two things nothing much can be achieved."</i></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pLbX5Z1Z2xY/Tv1XAwL7zTI/AAAAAAAAKFQ/WDr8Bmq5haU/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pLbX5Z1Z2xY/Tv1XAwL7zTI/AAAAAAAAKFQ/WDr8Bmq5haU/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-002.jpg" /></a></div><b>Men from the SS Division 'Deutschland'. The sergeant in the front carries a Schmeisser MP 28.II machine gun</b><br /><br />FRENCHMEN IN WAFFEN SS: FOUGHT TO THE LAST IN BERLIN<br />&nbsp;(<a href="http://www.read-all-about-it.org/archive_english/world_war2/hitlers_fighting_frenchmen.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a>)<br /><br /><b> </b><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Three other members of the Assault Battalion Charlemagne would receive the Knight's Cross, on the evening of April 29. By this time, 108 Soviet tanks had been destroyed in the city's center; 62 of them by Charlemagne soldiers. These French survivors spent April 30 repelling flame-throwing Soviet tanks, which kept lumbering toward the Führer Bunker.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Adolf Hitler may have been surprised to learn that not all of his last personal defenders were Germans. In addition to the Frenchmen, a few Danes, Norwegians, Latvians, Swedes, Spaniards and Balkan ethnic Germans, along with Hitler Youth, policemen and middle aged to elderly Volkssturm (People's Militia) were among those who fatefully joined in the final scenes of bravery and pathos.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To the north of Berlin, SS Battalion 58 and other Charlemagne troopers who had not gone into the city conducted a fighting withdrawal to Schleswig-Holstein. Their objective was to reach Denmark and link up with the remains of Leon Degrelle's 28th SS Division Wallonien. But the British Army got in the way, and on May 2 the last Charlemagne commander, Stubaf. Boudet-Gheusi, attempted to surrender his command.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Under a white flag, Boudet-Gheusi and his adjutant, (2nd Lieutenant) Radici crossed the Allied lines to speak with a British officer. The officer flatly rejected any official surrender, stating that the Frenchmen had to be turned over to the Russians for "punishment." At that point the two French SS junior officers were disarmed and taken into custody. They were then placed on an armored personnel carrier and driven to the Soviet lines. Both managed to jump off en route and escape. Subsequently, Boudet-Gheusi would be forced to serve a long prison sentence in France. Radici was executed by France's postwar government.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Part of the Charlemagne Wildflecken Regiment had been incorporated into the new SS-Panzergrenadier Division "Nibelungen" in Bavaria. This division had been formed late in the war from all sorts of available personnel. There were many French SS officer candidates and other European volunteers in its ranks. These were probably the only French SS troops to fight against the western Allies; in late April and early May, 1945. The Nibelungen Division surrendered to the Americans on May 9, two days after Germany's unconditional surrender at Reims, France. One would think this a much more preferable alternative for Waffen-SS volunteers than capitulation to the Red Army. But such was not necessarily the case. The Nibelungen POWs were severely abused by their captors. Many were beaten and even murdered in captivity. The bulk of the Nibelungen survivors would go into the cruel and infamous "open air" POW camps described in detail in James Bacque's book Other Losses. They definitely were not treated according to the rules of the Geneva Convention.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The soldiers of the Charlemagne Division had marched into history. Of the more than 10,000 French volunteers in the Waffen-SS, more than half had been killed or missing at the front, or would die in captivity. Like tens of thousands of their European SS comrades, the French volunteers were drawn from all walks of life, from laborers to aristocrats. They strongly believed they were fighting for the preservation of European civilization, national integrity and the destruction of Communism. They literally fought to the last bullet, with few survivors having any regret about the course they took. <b><br /></b></div><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A-_RY-iJGU8/Tv1aYH67PuI/AAAAAAAAKFc/UWGGDBTn6rk/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A-_RY-iJGU8/Tv1aYH67PuI/AAAAAAAAKFc/UWGGDBTn6rk/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-003.jpg" /></a></div>&nbsp;<b>Waffen SS soldiers in France, 1940 gingerly try and cross the small stream.</b><br /><br />THE ALLIED SOLDIERS FEARED AND RESPECTED THE WAFFEN SS...<br />(<a href="http://www.cwporter.com/gerund1.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a>)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Allied casualties were generally much higher whenever they were thrown into combat opposite seasoned SS troops. Consequently the SS were both feared and admired for their military prowess.</b></i> The allies feared that the SS would continue to offer armed underground resistance to the occupational authorities, therefore they determined to thoroughly disband and discredit this able military force before the eyes of not only the world, but of the German people as well. Consequently, the members of the SS received the most brutal treatment at the hands of the allied forces. Often accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the allies sought to expunge the very memory of this elite Nazi formation. The truth of the matter is that the Waffen SS was no more criminal than any other fighting unit, allied OR axis, and the treatment it’s members received at the hands of the allies was unjust and often criminal. Since SS members were stationed at concentration camps as guards, the allies took advantage of this fact and used it to condemn the members of the SS as a whole. Of course it should go without saying that simply because someone was a guard at a camp does not mean he or she was a criminal.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8FH0giaCcmU/Tv1aZjKIlYI/AAAAAAAAKFk/X7vveSLeyuw/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8FH0giaCcmU/Tv1aZjKIlYI/AAAAAAAAKFk/X7vveSLeyuw/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-004.jpg" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Western Front. 1940. Peer cautiously round a corner.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MvKhSuapCRs/Tv1aa41NMXI/AAAAAAAAKFs/nEzagRo5SOk/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MvKhSuapCRs/Tv1aa41NMXI/AAAAAAAAKFs/nEzagRo5SOk/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-005.jpg" /></a></div>&nbsp;<b>A little chat after fighting</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zQW9TOngLDk/Tv1acTZZmvI/AAAAAAAAKF0/4WwaSNOoWDw/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zQW9TOngLDk/Tv1acTZZmvI/AAAAAAAAKF0/4WwaSNOoWDw/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-006.jpg" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;This man is waiting for an order to move</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H006zu08EYI/Tv1adssPShI/AAAAAAAAKF8/Y4teXEDDvLU/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-anti-tank-gun-Pak-35-36.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H006zu08EYI/Tv1adssPShI/AAAAAAAAKF8/Y4teXEDDvLU/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-anti-tank-gun-Pak-35-36.jpg" /></a></div><b>Preparing to fire a Pak 35/36 anti-tank gun. 1940</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XD5gLS5gf4o/Tv1ecDh_bNI/AAAAAAAAKGI/1rVK1WhU6GQ/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XD5gLS5gf4o/Tv1ecDh_bNI/AAAAAAAAKGI/1rVK1WhU6GQ/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-007.jpg" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;A rare moment of respite for these fighting men</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wuNzUEH4GPc/Tv1edOCVKxI/AAAAAAAAKGQ/l_OFO9_E-EQ/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wuNzUEH4GPc/Tv1edOCVKxI/AAAAAAAAKGQ/l_OFO9_E-EQ/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-008.jpg" /></a></div>&nbsp;<b>SS machine gunners take up position</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XJT-lQ5Oafk/Tv1eenCdjAI/AAAAAAAAKGY/2YscjL8_Nbk/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XJT-lQ5Oafk/Tv1eenCdjAI/AAAAAAAAKGY/2YscjL8_Nbk/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-009.jpg" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;The one on the left is an&nbsp;<i>Unterscharführer SS</i> (in camouflage shirt)</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g-eZJidIDKw/Tv1ef0vobUI/AAAAAAAAKGg/W37u_YCrp30/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g-eZJidIDKw/Tv1ef0vobUI/AAAAAAAAKGg/W37u_YCrp30/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-010.jpg" /></a></div><b>This soldier rushes with a box of ammo</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bEGmNjGnfxg/Tv1ehLDXVDI/AAAAAAAAKGo/unRts6eUvS4/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bEGmNjGnfxg/Tv1ehLDXVDI/AAAAAAAAKGo/unRts6eUvS4/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-images-pictures-photos-011.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9VTaHfiejSI/Tv6kit2_sQI/AAAAAAAAKG0/SgOGzdTiRQw/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-reports-radio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9VTaHfiejSI/Tv6kit2_sQI/AAAAAAAAKG0/SgOGzdTiRQw/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-reports-radio.jpg" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Waffen SS men report on the situation</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IyL9pLzfnq0/Tv6kj0eFVCI/AAAAAAAAKG8/1yk1ceQJvzY/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="420" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IyL9pLzfnq0/Tv6kj0eFVCI/AAAAAAAAKG8/1yk1ceQJvzY/s640/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>&nbsp;<b>Machine gunners from the Waffen SS 'Deutschland' Division</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7vZfJZTHxd4/Tv6klIU2BaI/AAAAAAAAKHE/qocit-HpbCc/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-MG-34-machine-gun-firing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="464" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7vZfJZTHxd4/Tv6klIU2BaI/AAAAAAAAKHE/qocit-HpbCc/s640/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-MG-34-machine-gun-firing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;1940. Western front. SS soldiers fire away with their MG 34</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ToVa1W8AbtI/Tv6kmBXmmcI/AAAAAAAAKHM/9b1WDII3nXs/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-motor-cycles-western-front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="470" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ToVa1W8AbtI/Tv6kmBXmmcI/AAAAAAAAKHM/9b1WDII3nXs/s640/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-motor-cycles-western-front.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>1940. Western Front. SS men on motorcycles wait for orders.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sCU3lzt1DR0/Tv6oIqglrvI/AAAAAAAAKHY/-KUKyAoFm14/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-hitler-jugend-division-sepp-dietrich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sCU3lzt1DR0/Tv6oIqglrvI/AAAAAAAAKHY/-KUKyAoFm14/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-hitler-jugend-division-sepp-dietrich.jpg" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Sepp Dietrich with his charcoal-painted boys from the Hitler Youth Division</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YZ-zMHUv6sU/Tv6oJ42p6CI/AAAAAAAAKHg/k8p4i_TUi-A/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YZ-zMHUv6sU/Tv6oJ42p6CI/AAAAAAAAKHg/k8p4i_TUi-A/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-002.jpg" /></a></div>&nbsp;<b>SS soldiera about to cross the river on a rubber dingy. The man second from left carries a range-finder</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hpOaDi3YcJE/Tv6oLI950-I/AAAAAAAAKHo/7R4nzTG2CoA/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-12th-panzer-hitler-youth-division.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hpOaDi3YcJE/Tv6oLI950-I/AAAAAAAAKHo/7R4nzTG2CoA/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-12th-panzer-hitler-youth-division.jpg" /></a></div>&nbsp;<b>These men relaxedly sprawled on the tank are from the 12th SS Panzer Hitler</b><br /><b>Jugend Division</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iPmJO83Zf7o/Tv6oM_5KALI/AAAAAAAAKHw/2zzjJmFdn0c/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-conference-officers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iPmJO83Zf7o/Tv6oM_5KALI/AAAAAAAAKHw/2zzjJmFdn0c/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-conference-officers.jpg" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Conference with maps by officers and men of the Waffen SS</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_iebpLO-tVY/Tv6oOpkJecI/AAAAAAAAKH4/tPIsRYyF5aY/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-hitler-jugend-division.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_iebpLO-tVY/Tv6oOpkJecI/AAAAAAAAKH4/tPIsRYyF5aY/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-images-pictures-hitler-jugend-division.jpg" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;These guys are from the Hitler Youth Division</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>&nbsp;RELATED.....</b><br /><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.com/2011/12/waffen-ss-in-action-rare-unseen.html">WAFFEN SS IN ACTION: Rare, Unseen Pictures: Part 1</a></b><br /><br /><b style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://poisonpage.blogspot.in/2015/08/waffen-ss-training-personal-narrative-recruit.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WAFFEN SS: Training Made Them The Best: Personal Narrative Of A Recruit</a></b></div></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-12933878855554564172011-12-17T00:13:00.000-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.079-07:00WAFFEN SS IN ACTION: Rare, Unseen Pictures: Part 1 (LARGE IMAGES)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kJvVLmDX5S8/Twp_qWoNevI/AAAAAAAAKIw/3W3nMnMBlQU/s1600/waffen_SS_color_Pictures_images_photos_005_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Waffen SS in action" border="0" height="388" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kJvVLmDX5S8/Twp_qWoNevI/AAAAAAAAKIw/3W3nMnMBlQU/s640/waffen_SS_color_Pictures_images_photos_005_e.jpg" title="Waffen SS in action" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G5NJOSb2Cl0/Twp_dO9zGMI/AAAAAAAAKIo/yO2OD_t58vY/s1600/waffen_SS_color_Pictures_images_photos_003_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="waffen ss color image" border="0" height="422" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G5NJOSb2Cl0/Twp_dO9zGMI/AAAAAAAAKIo/yO2OD_t58vY/s640/waffen_SS_color_Pictures_images_photos_003_e.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cr5bed23Gf0/Tuw9WVWAfsI/AAAAAAAAJ9U/eNmrWUflxOI/s1600/waffen-SS-trench-1944.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="soldiers trench 1944" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cr5bed23Gf0/Tuw9WVWAfsI/AAAAAAAAJ9U/eNmrWUflxOI/s1600/waffen-SS-trench-1944.jpg" title="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Waffen SS soldiers crouch in a trench. Spring 1944</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">WHY HAS WAFFEN SS BECOME A CULT? </span></b></span></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">It was way back in 1945 that the last gun&nbsp; of a Waffen SS soldier fell silent. One wonders why they still live in our collective consciousness.&nbsp;</span></b></i></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Some of the things that some of them did was downright evil. Following blindly the dictates of a man possessed with a mad but twisted love for Germany.</span></b></i></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">But surprisingly in <a href="http://incredibleimages4u.blogspot.com/">an online poll</a> nearly 48% of the respondents said that Waffen SS soldiers were <a href="http://incredibleimages4u.blogspot.com/2011/10/history-opinion-poll-4-men-of-waffen-ss.html">great warriors</a>. Of the rest only 22% said that they were mere fanatics. 30% said they were something between; an admixture of great fighting men and fanatics.</span></b></i></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">The question remains, why? Why this fascination for the men of the Waffen SS?</span></b></i></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">May be the answer lies in the fact that today we live in times bereft of any values and beliefs. Making money. And more money, seems to be only mantra of life. Owing to this a certain weariness, an emptiness has crept in. We are at times sick of this materialistic life.</span></b></i></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Waffen SS. Driven men. Strongly bonded together. Led by capable, equally driven capable leaders in a structure that was less rigid, less formal and more comradely than the Wehrmacht. Men who thought nothing of their own lives. To fight. Fight for their country.</span></b></i></div><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i></div><i style="color: #660000;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This appeal, I think, will remain timeless. It is not the appeal of Nazism. But of these men who fought many, many years ago.</span></b></i><b><br /></b><br /><i style="color: #660000;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxG0vWwRaKLR2n03uYlVcYuuCwBpE_1iCm23i8Wc1dY681rtPF_fErvMbm13s_j2F84K_3QttwMAs4NnM7rYw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><i style="color: #660000;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rBBueB1c5kM/Tuw9XgOWN3I/AAAAAAAAJ9c/GeKKYeCGAus/s1600/waffen-ss-florian-grey-T-34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="move tank cover" border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rBBueB1c5kM/Tuw9XgOWN3I/AAAAAAAAJ9c/GeKKYeCGAus/s640/waffen-ss-florian-grey-T-34.jpg" title="" width="598" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>&nbsp;The group of SS men from the 8th Cavalry Division of the Waffen SS "Florian Geyer". Hidden behind a black Soviet T-34/76 tank, the men are watching the progress of the battle. One of them holds an anti-tank mine </b><br /><b><br /></b>THE SS FLORIAN GEYER DIVISION<br /><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Mc4vhDGR_yE/TuxBv5qCLQI/AAAAAAAAJ-M/kd-ugdleWT0/s1600/125px-8th_SS_Division_Logo.svg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Mc4vhDGR_yE/TuxBv5qCLQI/AAAAAAAAJ-M/kd-ugdleWT0/s1600/125px-8th_SS_Division_Logo.svg.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The<b> 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer</b> was a Waffen-SS cavalry Division during World War II. It was formed in 1942 from a cadre of the SS Cavalry Brigade which was involved in anti partisan operations behind the front line and was responsible for the extermination of tens of thousands of the civilian population. About 40% of the division were Volksdeutsche from Siebenbürgen (Transylvania) and Banat (Serbia). The Training and Replacement Battalion of the 8th SS Cavalry Division was involved in suppressing the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In March 1944, it was named after Florian Geyer (1490–1525), the Franconian nobleman who led the Black Company during the Peasants War. The Division was destroyed during the fighting in Budapest in early 1945. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CriBBf8clP4?rel=0" width="400"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wo1TCNdrI7U/Tuw9YiGQCMI/AAAAAAAAJ9k/wet_cE8M2R8/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-pictures-images-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="519" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wo1TCNdrI7U/Tuw9YiGQCMI/AAAAAAAAJ9k/wet_cE8M2R8/s640/waffen-SS-rare-pictures-images-001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cqKqwkY2s4s/Tuw9Zm1owII/AAAAAAAAJ9s/Ifj8f4fFbxw/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-pictures-images-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="waffen ss linesman" border="0" height="637" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cqKqwkY2s4s/Tuw9Zm1owII/AAAAAAAAJ9s/Ifj8f4fFbxw/s640/waffen-SS-rare-pictures-images-002.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>A soldier from the 8th Cavalry Division of 'Florian Geyer' Waffen SS Division lays a telephone cable</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxBC3cyoFQQ/Tuw9akjacvI/AAAAAAAAJ90/WgH45U52ccI/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-pictures-images-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxBC3cyoFQQ/Tuw9akjacvI/AAAAAAAAJ90/WgH45U52ccI/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-pictures-images-003.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Untersturmfuhrer SS &nbsp;of the SS brigade of "Langemarck". <i>Untersturmfuhrer </i>( a rank in the Waffen SS) was the equivalent of second lieutenant in other armies.&nbsp;</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wH3nu-44D84/TuxBQvbVhHI/AAAAAAAAJ-E/BdosRGN4zDk/s1600/125px-27th_SS_Division_Logo.svg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wH3nu-44D84/TuxBQvbVhHI/AAAAAAAAJ-E/BdosRGN4zDk/s1600/125px-27th_SS_Division_Logo.svg.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b>27th SS Volunteer Division Langemarck</b> was a German Waffen-SS volunteer division comprising volunteers of Flemish background. It saw action on the Eastern Front during World War II. The formation started as the 6th SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade Langemarck and in September 1944 the Sturmbrigade was raised in status to a division, but its strength never reached more than a brigade. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QzOoI28yu6o?rel=0" width="400"></iframe></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x861988g3-0/Tuw9bmuiIVI/AAAAAAAAJ98/agPaIEZ56R0/s1600/waffen-SS-trench-Nord.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Nordland shakes hand wounded finnish soldier" border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x861988g3-0/Tuw9bmuiIVI/AAAAAAAAJ98/agPaIEZ56R0/s640/waffen-SS-trench-Nord.jpg" title="" width="531" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>A soldiers from the Waffen SS Nord Division shakes hands witha wounded Finnish soldier.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">THE 6TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION NORD</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wJR6Yfh_yMg/TuxDSdmTYWI/AAAAAAAAJ-U/LecoB_jAscM/s1600/6th_SS_Division_Logo_Nord.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wJR6Yfh_yMg/TuxDSdmTYWI/AAAAAAAAJ-U/LecoB_jAscM/s1600/6th_SS_Division_Logo_Nord.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The 6th SS Mountain Division "Nord"</b> was a German unit of the Waffen SS during World War II, formed in February 1941 as SS Kampfgruppe Nord (SS Battle Group North).The Division was the only Waffen SS unit to fight in the Arctic Circle when it was stationed in Finland and northern Russia between June and November 1941. It fought in Karelia until the Finnish armistice in September 1944 when it marched on foot 1,600 km through Finland and Norway. It arrived in Denmark in December and then transferred to western Germany. It fought in the Nordwind offensive in January 1945, where it suffered heavy losses and surrendered to the American forces in Austria at the end of the war. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dno8qiEt3WQ?rel=0" width="400"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-83ngU2sRNx4/TuxEzXZFF2I/AAAAAAAAJ-c/1l22vIlJFow/s1600/motorcyclists-waffen-SS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="motorcyclists" border="0" height="461" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-83ngU2sRNx4/TuxEzXZFF2I/AAAAAAAAJ-c/1l22vIlJFow/s640/motorcyclists-waffen-SS.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Motorcyclists from Waffen SS. The goggles hang around his neck</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>VIDEO: <span style="color: blue;">WAFFEN SS IN ACTION</span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwI2J6JlhYlsphNSHjFckCRfyoTFeIO4qguKtOT1X6VhUFAZGkKEHRN2gMB15z6C_-MFurOVqOX6KzDVpHT7g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><b><br /></b><br />THE WAFFEN SS<br /><br /><b> </b><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Elite Waffen-SS was a formidable opponent on the battlefield. Many a time, they saved the German army from total destruction. Their reputation was formed mainly on the eastern front at the beginning of the war. They also behaved heroically in the west in 1944-1945. However, they were one of the most unpopular regimes in history. The members of the elite Waffen-SS were mostly volunteers and the fanatical Nazi. They firmly believed in the justice of their cause and fought with the fervor usually absent from the Allies. However, this passion existed not only in the elite divisions.<i><b> In a million (or thereabouts) of people who served in the Waffen-SS, a third died in the fighting. </b><b>This is - an unprecedented level of loss is not characteristic for any other army (except, of course, the Imperial Japanese Army)</b></i>. However, military professionalism, fighting spirit and zeal of the Waffen-SS units were unable to resist the military superiority of the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">War on the Eastern Front was the decisive battle for the Waffen-SS.This elite force of Nazi Germany had the most difficult and most important battles to fight. But the superiority of the enemy was too great, and, finally, the Red Army prevailed. The collapse of the Eastern Front was only a matter of time, conscious of the fact that the Soviet Union produced three times more tanks than Germany. But still, it was not a question of numbers (that is a common explanation of reasons for the defeat of Germany). In addition, Stalin was fortunate to have amazingly talented generals. Some key points were Russian advantage, make the right strategic decisions, such as the operation "Citadel" Kursk meant to challenge for her participation in the armored divisions of the Waffen-SS in Kharkov front before the Soviet summer offensive in August 1943.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">During the war in the Eastern Front the Waffen-SS proved itself as a formidable force, caused severe damage to the Allies in Normandy in the summer of 1944 and later - in Arnhem and the Ardennes. Tactics and operations, used on the eastern front, were a real shock to the British and American armies, when they landed in Europe and when they first encountered the tanks of the Waffen-SS. The Western allies were so impressed with the new tank tactics that after the war they used them, and many German tactical decisions become the basis of plans developed by NATO repel the Soviet invasion of Western Europe.&nbsp;</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iUd1JR2UdB8/TuxJ0BX0osI/AAAAAAAAJ-k/PkVJ4UVBIug/s1600/anti-aircraft-gun-waffen-ss-totenkopf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="totenkopf shoot enemy warplane" border="0" height="492" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iUd1JR2UdB8/TuxJ0BX0osI/AAAAAAAAJ-k/PkVJ4UVBIug/s640/anti-aircraft-gun-waffen-ss-totenkopf.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div><b>Soldiers from the 3rd Armored 'Totenkopf' SS Division fire anti-aircraft gun at enemy airplanes</b><br /><b><br /></b>TOTENKOPF DIVISION<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AmFMwesNIVo/TuxNXp5g-cI/AAAAAAAAJ_c/TTdgbuBgzmQ/s1600/3rd_SS_Division_Logo_TOTENKOPF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AmFMwesNIVo/TuxNXp5g-cI/AAAAAAAAJ_c/TTdgbuBgzmQ/s1600/3rd_SS_Division_Logo_TOTENKOPF.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">The <b>SS Division Totenkopf ("Death's Head")</b>, also known as 3. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Totenkopf and 3. SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf, was one of the 38 divisions fielded by the Waffen-SS during World War II. Prior to achieving division status, the formation was known as <i>Kampfgruppe Eicke</i>. The division is infamous due to its insignia and the fact that most of the initial enlisted soldiers were <b>SS-Totenkopfverbände</b> (SS concentration camp guards). The Totenkopf division was numbered with the "Germanic" divisions of the Waffen-SS. These included also the SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, SS-Panzer Division Das Reich, and SS-Panzer Division Wiking. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v6Yt9OqhMUI/TuxJ14DZLEI/AAAAAAAAJ-s/guiOIh0nr94/s1600/waffen-SS-7th-mountain-division-prinz-eugen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="prince eugen against partisans soviet" border="0" height="434" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v6Yt9OqhMUI/TuxJ14DZLEI/AAAAAAAAJ-s/guiOIh0nr94/s640/waffen-SS-7th-mountain-division-prinz-eugen.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Men from the 7th Volunteer Mountain Division 'Prinz Eugen' on a mission against partisans</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ksX6WYnz5AE/TuxL7ZaEoNI/AAAAAAAAJ_U/Li8HHb5THaE/s1600/th_SS_Division_Logo-Prinz-Eugen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ksX6WYnz5AE/TuxL7ZaEoNI/AAAAAAAAJ_U/Li8HHb5THaE/s1600/th_SS_Division_Logo-Prinz-Eugen.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The<b> 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen</b>. was formed on March 1942 from Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) volunteers from Vojvodina, Croatia, Hungary and Romania, it was initially called the SS-Freiwilligen-Division Prinz Eugen. (SS-Volunteer Division Prinz Eugen). It was engaged in anti-partisan operations in the Balkans during World War II </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-362Uz3xyfuQ/TuxJ4ECqBSI/AAAAAAAAJ-0/s_SvprYTE80/s1600/waffen-SS-italian-soldiers-balkans-1943.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="relaxing smoking cigarette balkans 1943" border="0" height="393" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-362Uz3xyfuQ/TuxJ4ECqBSI/AAAAAAAAJ-0/s_SvprYTE80/s640/waffen-SS-italian-soldiers-balkans-1943.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a>&nbsp;<b>SS and Italian soldiers share a smoke in the Balkans. 1943. The SS man has a 9mm MR 28 rifle slung around his shoulder</b></div></div><b></b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Soldiers of the Waffen-SS during World War II committed many atrocities, not only on the battlefield. They were the first soldiers of the Third Reich for the purity of race and despised by all those whom Nazi ideology declared to be of an inferior race. Not highly valuing their own lives, they did not consider the value of the lives of their enemies. <i><b>The outstanding military skill of elite tank divisions of the Waffen-SS is rarely questioned. They really were a formidable fighting force.</b><b>&nbsp; However, part of the Waffen-SS in the massacres across Europe during the war cast a shadow on honest military victory</b></i>. Defenders of the Waffen-SS usually portray themselves as separate and isolated military branch of a large organization, the SS, had not participated in the genocide of Jews and other races that were considered by Hitler and his racial ideology of the "subhuman."<br /><b><br /></b><b>Though the Waffen SS were not part of the Nazi killing machine, they knew what was going on.</b><br /><b><br /></b>The war in Russia showed the Waffen-SS in its true light. The armed forces of Hitler's SS were the vanguard of the race war . They showed no mercy to the racial and political opponents of Nazism. Lives of the Jews and the Russian did not have any value, according to Nazi ideology, they could only be used for forced labor for the benefit of Germany. Russian citizens were treated with contempt by the SS, their property, crops and dwellings were seized, even if it led to the death of the owners, given the harsh climate of the country. The Soviet officers and commissioners at the hands of representatives of the Waffen-SS. in accordance with the "commissar order" issued by Fuhrer, simply shot. To the Soviet soldiers captured the Waffen SS, did not&nbsp; apply the Geneva Convention. They were usually left hungry and did not receive medical care. The execution of hundreds of Soviet prisoners of war was commonplace in parts of the Waffen-SS. Once more than 4 thousand prisoners were killed in four days by the Division "Leibstandarte." Killings of thousands of civilians as an act of revenge for the attack guerrillas was also common practice for the Waffen-SS. <b><br /></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jWQtvxonhjc/TuxJ6LLw2bI/AAAAAAAAJ-8/wSJ8TClVLGU/s1600/waffen-SS-men-drag-trailer-with-arms.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="423" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jWQtvxonhjc/TuxJ6LLw2bI/AAAAAAAAJ-8/wSJ8TClVLGU/s640/waffen-SS-men-drag-trailer-with-arms.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>Waffen SS soldiers pull a cart with arms</b><br /><br />HOW A WAFFEN SS SOLDIER WAS MADE<br /><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;">In preparation of&nbsp; a Waffen-SSsoldier, the emphasis was on physical endurance and moral superiority over the enemy. This was drilled into them. Even before the new recruits set about learning, they had to go through a very serious racial and ideological selection. Hitler insisted that potential soldiers of the divisions of the Waffen-SS were to be aged 17-22 years, had to have a growth of at least 1.8 meters and were in good physical shape. Each recruit had to be proportional in their constitution, without any kind of imbalance between the tibia and femur, or between the legs and torso, which should enable them to carry heavy loads over long distances. Also, the recruits were to have true Aryan appearance. Himmler said: "The main thing is that in their attitude to the discipline of a person not acting like a wimp. His gait, his hands - all must conform to the ideal that we have set ourselves." Aryan recruits should not have in no case a drop of Jewish or other subhuman blood. Verification led to ancestors since 1800 - for the soldiers and up to 1750 - for the officers. Those who were found to have&nbsp; "junk" blood, were refused. And if the lack of racial purity was detected after the start of the service, the man was fired. Potential brides for these men had similar requirements to make sure future offspring were pure Aryans. With the number of Waffen-SS was limited to the army to join the armed forces of the Nazi party as a result it was very difficult to find recruits in large numbers. But so appealing was a kind of mystical aura created around the Waffen-SS, it was not difficult to convince young people to serve in this elite formation. In contrast to the army conscripts, soldiers of the Waffen-SS recruits were to serve at least 4 years, non-commissioned officers - 12 years, and officers - for 25 years.<b></b></div><b><br /></b><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sHNLdnM2Dis/TuxJ9dngJ7I/AAAAAAAAJ_E/ttc-wSu2BWQ/s1600/waffen-SS-soldiers-march-mountain-division.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Unterscharführer" border="0" height="464" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sHNLdnM2Dis/TuxJ9dngJ7I/AAAAAAAAJ_E/ttc-wSu2BWQ/s640/waffen-SS-soldiers-march-mountain-division.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a><br /><b>SS men on the march. The soldier behind is a <i>"Unterscharführer" SS</i>. A rank in the SS equivalent to corporal or sergeant in other armies</b><br /><br />RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE WEHRMACHT AND WAFFEN SS<br /><br /><b> </b><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The relationship between the SS and German Army wAS complex and often antagonistic. In the course of the war, when Germany was forced onto the defensive there began an increasing split between senior officers of the Waffen-SS Himmler and the highest levels Allgemeine-SS (SS-arms) - the main administrative and political branch of the SS.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">By the beginning of 1944 the Waffen-SS veterans - military generals, such as Paul Hausser, "Sepp" Dietrich, Willy Bittrih and Felix Steiner, had already lost their illusions about Hitler's military strategy. They lost thousands of men in bloody battles on the Eastern Front, and realized that Hitler's strategy of "no retreat" and "fight to the last" was leading to the defeat of Germany. Hausser's retreat from Kharkov in early 1943 was the first sign of Waffen SS leaders getting rid of illusions. It seemed obvious that the creator of the Waffen-SS did not want to sacrifice his best people in the senseless struggle for a city that had no strategic importance.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Heavy fighting in winter 1943/44, when tens of thousands of German soldiers, including SS men, escaped death just because Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, organized breakouts and did not obey the orders of Hitler, also opened the eyes of many. The senior commanders of the Waffen-SS gradually began to see clearly. They were convinced that they had more in common with the officers of the Wehrmacht, such as Manstein than to toadies who surrounded Hitler, or the SS bureaucracy, which worked for Himmler.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Army and Waffen-SS were fierce rivals in the 1930s, but by the middle of war, their relations had lost their tension. This particularly applies to commanders of tank units. Field commanders of tank units of the Waffen-SS and the Wehrmacht fought shoulder to shoulder in the bloodiest battles on the Eastern front - it was there was born and was strengthened their mutual respect. Hitler for a time very graciously looked at the favorite commanders of the Waffen-SS Dietrich and others, but by 1944, and they too were treated with a high degree of suspicion. Himmler, too, was delighted with the views of Dietrich and Hausser. In political debate he openly sided with the army commanders.<b><br /></b></div><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2Eipd62aMJs/TuxJ_Y-UbFI/AAAAAAAAJ_M/KpjZXGJqdGA/s1600/waffen-SS-soldiers-with-russian-pow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="transporting prisoner" border="0" height="407" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2Eipd62aMJs/TuxJ_Y-UbFI/AAAAAAAAJ_M/KpjZXGJqdGA/s640/waffen-SS-soldiers-with-russian-pow.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>An Officer and a rider from the SS prepare to transport a prisoner of the Red Army &nbsp;to headquarters for questioning. Interestingly, the number is either lost on the motorcycle, or specifically removed, in order not &nbsp;to give out the presence of the Waffen SS units in the area</b><br /><b><br /></b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>'A small band of the best and most determined is far more valuable than a large mass of camp followers.'</i></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i></i><b>Adolf Hitler in 1926&nbsp;</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>'First, there is loyalty, God be praised, we have never had a single case of treason in our ranks.'</i></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>'Every man who joins the SS must know, that at any moment, he may be mortally wounded.'&nbsp;</i></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Heinrich Himmler, speaking to SS generals at Poznan 4 October 1943&nbsp;</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i>'Men like Steiner and later Eicke . . . These were the people I most identified with and we often discussed how we could organize a soldierly force, an army along very different lines who would be superbly trained in a new way.'&nbsp;</i></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sepp Dietrich post-war</b></span><b><br /></b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9nW_LLtTr-U/TvQc_aJlpmI/AAAAAAAAJ_4/bmtmfe2avCo/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-given-milk-by-russian-peasants-1941_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="soviet union 1941 women milk" border="0" height="457" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9nW_LLtTr-U/TvQc_aJlpmI/AAAAAAAAJ_4/bmtmfe2avCo/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-given-milk-by-russian-peasants-1941_e.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;It is true. When the German soldiers entered the USSR in 1941, in many parts they were hailed as liberators and welcomed. In the image a Russian peasant woman gives the SS soldiers milk to drink.</b><br /><b><br /></b>WAFFEN SS WERE NOT CRIMINALS: THEY WERE SOLDIERS<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">At the post-war <b><i>Nuremberg Trials the Waffen-SS was condemned as a criminal organization</i></b> over its essential connection to the Nazi Party and involvement in war crimes. <b><i>Waffen-SS veterans were denied many of the rights afforded to veterans</i></b> who had served in the Heer, Luftwaffe (air force) or Kriegsmarine (navy). The exception made was for Waffen-SS conscripts sworn in after 1943, who were exempted because of their involuntary servitude. <b><i>In the 1950s and 1960s, Waffen-SS veteran groups successfully fought numerous legal battles in West Germany to overturn the Nuremberg ruling and win pension rights for their members.</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>------------------</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the Jewish insurgency that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto from 19 April to 16 May, an effort to prevent the transportation of the remaining population of the ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp. <b><i>The only units involved from the Waffen-SS</i></b> were 821 Waffen-SS Panzergrenadiers from five reserve and training battalions and one cavalry reserve and training battalion.</div></div></div><br />THE MOTIVATED FIGHTERS<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Events during the Invasion of Poland raised doubts over the combat effectiveness of the SS-VT. Their willingness to fight was never in any doubt; at times they were almost too eager. <b><i>The OKW reported that the SS-VT had unnecessarily exposed themselves to risks and acted recklessly, incurring heavier losses than Army troops.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>----------------------------------</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The Leibstandarte had now crossed into Greece, and on 10 April, 1940, engaged the 6th Australian Division in the Battle of the Klidi Pass. For 48 hours they fought for control of the heights, often engaging in hand-to-hand combat, eventually gaining control with the capture of Height 997, which opened the pass, allowing the German Army to advance into the Greek interior. This victory finally gained praise from the OKW: in the order of the day they were commended for their<b><i> "Unshakable offensive spirit" </i></b>and told that <b><i>"The present victory signifies for the Leibstandarte a new and imperishable page of honour in its history."</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>-----------------------------------</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The war in the Soviet Union proceeded well at first, but<b><i> the cost to the Waffen-SS was extreme:</i></b> the Leibstandarte by late October was at half strength due to enemy action and dysentery that swept through the ranks. Das Reich had lost 60% of its strength and was still to take part in the Battle of Moscow, and was decimated in the following Soviet offensive. <b><i>The Der Führer Regiment was reduced to 35 men out of the 2,000 that had started the campaign in June. Altogether, the Waffen-SS had suffered 43,000 casualties.</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>------------------------------------</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The Hungarian Third Army had been besieged in Budapest along with the IX Waffen Mountain Corps of the SS (Croatian) (8 SS Florian Geyer and 22 SS Maria Theresia). The siege lasted from 29 December 1944 until the city surrendered unconditionally on 13 February 1945. <b><i>Some idea of the intensity of the fighting can be had by the fact that only 170 men of the 22 SS Maria Theresia made it back to the German lines.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>------------------------------------</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">BERLIN 1945: Under pressure from the most intense shelling, the SS troops put up stiff resistance as the Red Army raced to take the Reichstag and Reich Chancellery. <b><i>This condemned the SS troops to bitter and bloody street fighting</i></b>. By 26 April, the Nordland defenders in the centre government quarter were pushed back into the Reichstag and Reich Chancellery. <b><i>There over the next few days, the survivors (mainly French SS troops from the former 33 SS Charlemagne) held out against overwhelming odds.</i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pwn3Cxuyu6k/TvQdAxYhwZI/AAAAAAAAKAA/O1w5zQxkP3I/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-001_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="camouflaged soldiers" border="0" height="467" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pwn3Cxuyu6k/TvQdAxYhwZI/AAAAAAAAKAA/O1w5zQxkP3I/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-001_e.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Waffen SS men heavily camouflaged</b><br /><b><br /></b>WHY WERE (ARE?) WAFFEN SS SOLDIERS THE BEST IN HISTORY?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The Waffen SS were fierce fighters because of tough training, and racial beliefs. They were ideologically motivated unlike any other soldier during the war. They were also extremely loyal to Hitler and would die for him without a second hesitation. Besides training and motivation which made them deadly cold blooded efficient killers, they were also driven by Hitlers racial beliefs and laws. Every SS soldier was a die hard believer of the whole "Aryan being superior to all other races" thing. Their ideology and racial views fueled the holocaust in which the SS were in charge. This forever linked SS with racial hatred and hideous war crimes. <b><i>Training and racial ideology practice made the SS devoted to Hitler in battle which made retreat or defeat not an option. They were the most feared para-military organization in history. What made them so good was the environment in which they trained. Waffen SS training was the hardest in the world at that time. They were the elite at that time. SS training was harder than modern USMC</i></b>. What was hardest was Himmlers tough racial purity laws. Recruits have to be 5'10", no defective teeth, you couldn't wear spectacles, and had to trace your arian purity back to 1700. One third of canidates would fail physical inspections. All the training both physical and ideological turned men into the ruthless, skilled soldiers that were the Waffen SS. Intense physical and mental training, racial beliefs, and a brutal, fearless reputation that they earned themselves are what made the Waffen SS such a successful fighting force.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_were_the_waffen_SS_the_best_troops_of_World_War_2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikianswers</a></div><br /><br />&nbsp;A GERMAN VIDEO<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/K9SFPHUT47Y?rel=0" width="400"></iframe> <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1SDkQlDlO2s/TvQdC_Zc_jI/AAAAAAAAKAI/6lB7He1T8BQ/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-002_e0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="calls for ambulance" border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1SDkQlDlO2s/TvQdC_Zc_jI/AAAAAAAAKAI/6lB7He1T8BQ/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-002_e0.jpg" title="" width="502" /></a></div>&nbsp;<b>3rd SS Armored Division of the Totenkopf. A soldier signals to the motorcycle rider that an ambulance is needed for the injured.</b><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; text-align: left;"><i><b>The curtain of silence fell on the Waffen SS after the war but now more and more young people somehow know of its existence, of its achievements. The fame is growing and the young demand to know more. In one hundred years almost everything will be forgotten but the greatness and the heroism of the Waffen SS will be remembered. It is the reward of an epic.&nbsp;</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>LEON DEGRELLE, FORMER BELGIAN WAFFEN SS OFFICER&nbsp;</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Source:<a href="http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v03/v03p441_Degrelle.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> ihr.org</a></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QyJyayyPgPs/TvQdEMxYp3I/AAAAAAAAKAQ/qmwpTDJMAAM/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-cheer-luftwaffe-plane_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="7th Mountain Division prinz eugen" border="0" height="538" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QyJyayyPgPs/TvQdEMxYp3I/AAAAAAAAKAQ/qmwpTDJMAAM/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-cheer-luftwaffe-plane_e.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div>&nbsp;<b>Soldiers of the 7th Mountain Division of the Waffen SS "Prinz Eugen" wave to a &nbsp;Luftwaffe plane flying above</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8-mi3fLVXSA/TvQdFZIKa1I/AAAAAAAAKAY/FnYcpkeGmjo/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-hitler-youth-division-look-enemy-planes_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="normandy 1944" border="0" height="453" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8-mi3fLVXSA/TvQdFZIKa1I/AAAAAAAAKAY/FnYcpkeGmjo/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-hitler-youth-division-look-enemy-planes_e.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div><b>Normandy 1944. Soldiers of the 12th Armored Division of the Waffen SS "Hitler Youth" closely watch the sky, swarming with enemy aircraft.</b><br /><b><br /></b>THE HITLERJUGEND WAFFEN SS DIVISION<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fH-wvxwbI6w/TvQgQN0Ol5I/AAAAAAAAKA0/8V3_qeQHsuE/s1600/12SSHitlerjugendinsignahistorypicturesrareimages.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fH-wvxwbI6w/TvQgQN0Ol5I/AAAAAAAAKA0/8V3_qeQHsuE/s200/12SSHitlerjugendinsignahistorypicturesrareimages.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend ("Hitler Youth") was a German Waffen SS armoured division during World War II. The Hitlerjugend was unique because the majority of its junior enlisted men were drawn from members of the Hitler Youth, while the senior NCOs and officers were generally veterans of the Eastern Front. The division, with 20,540 personnel, first saw action on 7 June 1944 as part of the German defense of the Caen area during the Normandy campaign. The battle for Normandy took its toll on the division and it came out of the Falaise pocket with a divisional strength of 12,000 men. Following the invasion battles, the division was sent to Germany for refitting. On 16 December 1944, the division was committed against the US Army in the Battle of the Bulge. After the failure of the Ardennes offensive the division was sent east to fight the Red Army near Budapest. The 12th SS eventually withdrew into Austria; on 8 May 1945, the surviving 10,000 men surrendered to the US Army at Enns.</div><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3wPUAO_TLU8/TvQdGg_f90I/AAAAAAAAKAg/arbOEKB7AVQ/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-trenches_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="354" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3wPUAO_TLU8/TvQdGg_f90I/AAAAAAAAKAg/arbOEKB7AVQ/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-trenches_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;The SS soldiers are in a trench while their radio-man is trying to communicate</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-knexriqnkv4/TvQdILgB1oI/AAAAAAAAKAo/u5mpptdwl8U/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-officer-gives-instructions_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="474" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-knexriqnkv4/TvQdILgB1oI/AAAAAAAAKAo/u5mpptdwl8U/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-officer-gives-instructions_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>A SS officer gives instructions to his men</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l-n1o4pk3C8/TvQrYx4OmwI/AAAAAAAAKBA/kOXuQBLoe5I/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-001_e0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="540" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l-n1o4pk3C8/TvQrYx4OmwI/AAAAAAAAKBA/kOXuQBLoe5I/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-001_e0.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>A picture that would have had Stalin fuming. A Russian peasant woman offers to darn the sock of a Waffen SS &nbsp;soldier</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mPitmwd-K38/TvQrZ8F7DxI/AAAAAAAAKBI/O3OeZZ97F40/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-002_e1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="456" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mPitmwd-K38/TvQrZ8F7DxI/AAAAAAAAKBI/O3OeZZ97F40/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-002_e1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>SS soldiers calculate and aim their mortar</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WibOzcJJ_Y8/TvQrbdcTBXI/AAAAAAAAKBQ/jF5_PNixKl4/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-003_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WibOzcJJ_Y8/TvQrbdcTBXI/AAAAAAAAKBQ/jF5_PNixKl4/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-003_e.jpg" width="462" /></a></div><b>The men cross the river on a boat</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iQpz5Z_MQFk/TvQrcyxDmKI/AAAAAAAAKBY/M3RRH4P8RcE/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images--1st-ss-panzer-division-adolphhitler-kharkov-1943_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Kharkov" border="0" height="510" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iQpz5Z_MQFk/TvQrcyxDmKI/AAAAAAAAKBY/M3RRH4P8RcE/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images--1st-ss-panzer-division-adolphhitler-kharkov-1943_e.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div><b>A SS soldier plays the piano after the fight. The men belong to the 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler". Kharkov, 1943 </b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OjE-965Lj_M/TvQreG5KWfI/AAAAAAAAKBg/tRBh5fKcVd0/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-machine-gun-crew-totenkopf_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="485" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OjE-965Lj_M/TvQreG5KWfI/AAAAAAAAKBg/tRBh5fKcVd0/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-machine-gun-crew-totenkopf_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Machine-gun crew from the 3rd Armored Division of the SS "Totenkopf" </b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pp6rA3HUJ6M/TvQrg5ex0fI/AAAAAAAAKBo/WbV0ZjPRW-Q/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-ss-totenkopf_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="451" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pp6rA3HUJ6M/TvQrg5ex0fI/AAAAAAAAKBo/WbV0ZjPRW-Q/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-ss-totenkopf_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>Soldiers of 3rd Armored Division of the SS "Totenkopf" in the trenches.</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7HIRS5i75Zg/Tvqs5ztvEdI/AAAAAAAAKB4/P-5IWk9-TWo/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-001_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="462" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7HIRS5i75Zg/Tvqs5ztvEdI/AAAAAAAAKB4/P-5IWk9-TWo/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-001_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;SS men fire away with a MG 42 machine gun</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sRfFpy8R3i0/Tvqs7AowWOI/AAAAAAAAKCA/lus4gutAKO0/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-002_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sRfFpy8R3i0/Tvqs7AowWOI/AAAAAAAAKCA/lus4gutAKO0/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-002_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>Firing a 8cm GrW 34 mortar</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The 8 cm Granatwerfer 34 (8 cm GrW 34) was the standard German medium mortar throughout World War II. It gained a reputation for extreme accuracy and rapid rate of fire, although much of the credit should go to the training of the crews.</div><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ms5dXqDUwdk/TvqwFHoMu_I/AAAAAAAAKCM/P158gsD7ASY/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-003_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ms5dXqDUwdk/TvqwFHoMu_I/AAAAAAAAKCM/P158gsD7ASY/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-003_e.jpg" width="582" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;A Waffen SS soldier in Russia during winter in a M42 pullover.</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Waffen-SS winter combat clothing was developed independently for the army and resulted in a pullover fur-lined anorak.Improvements to this garment were made during the war, leading to several variants. The most common type was the M42 pullover type with its large hood to accommodate the steel helmet. Included with this anorak was a white removable shell. Although the fur-lined anorak was used until the end of the war, the Waffen-SS found the army reversible insulated winter suit to be superior in many aspects and copied its design. However they produced the printed camouflaged side in Waffen-SS patterns. In the winter of 1942-43, to supplement the shortage of fur-lined anoraks, Waffen-SS troops were also supplied with the new army field gray/white reversible insulated winter suit</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">From<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001O9FCAY?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=incrwarimag-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B001O9FCAY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> <b><i>White Hell - The German Army Faces the Russian Winter</i></b></a> by <i>Gordon Rottman, Stephen Andrew</i><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qajF0c_mOuE/TvqwGYN4YEI/AAAAAAAAKCU/FpLag3m5YlY/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-004_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="518" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qajF0c_mOuE/TvqwGYN4YEI/AAAAAAAAKCU/FpLag3m5YlY/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-004_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>Soldiers from the 3rd SS Division 'Totenkopf' at the start of the war</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IhMFWQJzzlY/Tvq24rRe8cI/AAAAAAAAKCg/mxRMn9ooaZM/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-take-a-break_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="380" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IhMFWQJzzlY/Tvq24rRe8cI/AAAAAAAAKCg/mxRMn9ooaZM/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-take-a-break_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>&nbsp;<b>The men take a break. One of them holds a Soviet TT pistol</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pZrEfvhtWJM/Tvq26H67cuI/AAAAAAAAKCo/AGfrGL0HZ4M/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-005_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pZrEfvhtWJM/Tvq26H67cuI/AAAAAAAAKCo/AGfrGL0HZ4M/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-005_e.jpg" width="536" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;A SS orderly gives a wounded soldier a drink of water</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k61tSnh_pf4/Tvq27fAi32I/AAAAAAAAKCw/8l9_DsgSc90/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-006_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k61tSnh_pf4/Tvq27fAi32I/AAAAAAAAKCw/8l9_DsgSc90/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-006_e.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;This SS soldier darts to a forward position with a MG 42 machine gun</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WMFrJw-etq8/Tvq28pPIzeI/AAAAAAAAKC4/9O08YH1_7uY/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-firing-MG42-machine-gun_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="548" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WMFrJw-etq8/Tvq28pPIzeI/AAAAAAAAKC4/9O08YH1_7uY/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-images-history-firing-MG42-machine-gun_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>Firing at the enemy with a MG 42 machine gun</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XzM-sZI7_fA/TvsPE4XOPWI/AAAAAAAAKDE/7WtH4zqpsmQ/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-001_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XzM-sZI7_fA/TvsPE4XOPWI/AAAAAAAAKDE/7WtH4zqpsmQ/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-001_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;SS men about to fire a MG 34 machine gun</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Iyou65yfjfM/TvsPH0KIdZI/AAAAAAAAKDM/ngFRSR0KmjE/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-002_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="467" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Iyou65yfjfM/TvsPH0KIdZI/AAAAAAAAKDM/ngFRSR0KmjE/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-002_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Two Waffen SS soldiers</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iQh7TQuqaU4/TvsPJ9qPcyI/AAAAAAAAKDU/gAsZA2oG8iU/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-7th-mountain-division-prinz-eugen_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iQh7TQuqaU4/TvsPJ9qPcyI/AAAAAAAAKDU/gAsZA2oG8iU/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-7th-mountain-division-prinz-eugen_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Carrying the wounded comrades. Men of the 7th Volunteer Mountian 'Prinz Eugen' Division</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M1YorINlDnA/TvsPL8L27cI/AAAAAAAAKDc/FtWsHXM5gdM/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-BMW-R75_e0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="453" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M1YorINlDnA/TvsPL8L27cI/AAAAAAAAKDc/FtWsHXM5gdM/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-BMW-R75_e0.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;SS soldiers stuck in the mud. They are riding a BMW R75 motorcycle</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PHCryqTrZ5E/TvsUCytVyTI/AAAAAAAAKDo/e6KYIsiuAac/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-Horch-901_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="438" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PHCryqTrZ5E/TvsUCytVyTI/AAAAAAAAKDo/e6KYIsiuAac/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-Horch-901_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>&nbsp;Riding the Horch 901</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pW0Urt8OOG8/TvsUFhvMWmI/AAAAAAAAKDw/6nqvETWE_dY/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-otto-funck-hitler-youth-division_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pW0Urt8OOG8/TvsUFhvMWmI/AAAAAAAAKDw/6nqvETWE_dY/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-otto-funck-hitler-youth-division_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>&nbsp;<b>The famous soldier from the SS Hitlerjugend Division Otto Funk. He was 15 when he destroyed a Churchill tank with a MG 42 machine gun. He was awarded the Iron Cross class 2 for that.He was wounded on June 26, 1944 but continued fighting till May 8, 1945 </b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--dltGjfMjyA/TvsUHbFl4uI/AAAAAAAAKD4/CTD-sS2fsys/s1600/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-soviet-union_e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="457" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--dltGjfMjyA/TvsUHbFl4uI/AAAAAAAAKD4/CTD-sS2fsys/s640/waffen-SS-rare-unseen-pictures-history-in-pictures-pictureshistory-soviet-union_e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>Waffen SS soldiers in action in the Soviet Union</b><br /><br /><b>SEE ALSO....</b><br /><b><a href="http://pictureshistory.blogspot.com/2011/12/waffen-ss-in-action-rare-unseen_28.html">WAFFEN SS IN ACTION: Rare, Unseen Pictures: Part 2</a></b><br /><br /><b style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://poisonpage.blogspot.in/2015/08/waffen-ss-training-personal-narrative-recruit.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WAFFEN SS: Training Made Them The Best: Personal Narrative Of A Recruit</a></b><br /><br /><b>--------------------------------------------</b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-60733964853921935832011-03-09T00:12:00.000-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.307-07:00Downfall Trailer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxSwXOUbUgtPZeRWI3ZBod0F7Wj0yhm95euT2BDRxH6Pb4-yeJ_6PQJthwQ4xZ6BUghtEFTuJf5GdG1lQl2DQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-57443314771801357022011-02-26T23:32:00.000-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.274-07:00Stuka Dive Bomber (JU 87) In Action<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The video below shows a Stuka in action. Perhaps the best Stuka video on the web.<br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy7GFJyQbuSB9lsnnL6yq6U_0ilYZwEhMdznZLGkJ2CRIqVjZ0m72KVeLTDRhtSlaJwo0Z34WoEFBujklmG' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The sound that the Stuka made when it dived was frightening. Hear it</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxy6v0SLbkBq7oUTH6MlFSMT5PvlsHBOVf_o4JPado3sJLsTAGH5h09gpuLSl4pIJtFnLF7DDGmBW9wfj4llA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />This one shows Stuka attacking Russian columns in September 1943<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzHzuZY73zXKQZL6CCtgtcvUBXuM-wmg8FacrqC8lBW-e87K3SWWy2kReBG4un0Vyx_6qPMN-K7dYcfYmrmsg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><br />In the early days of the opening of the Eastern Front, Stukas attack defensive positions near Moscow<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzB6H7yDLWMSifOJOQfDpFA_9gQr-oUCvSazabY3uy6mEhVNxey87_8yzP6tOD8Bb-upUVJ1OOfUFie7__-5A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><br />Color video. Stukas bombing a Russian village. 1944<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwhMLu_pJw2rm1SA8IQKjG0nhvDdkAO-pszHCjqVrdYqMgD35kGSxwWwlHjo86cZQ0Y5Rp2eM1HxtoycWuZkA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxxGDgnCDYitXF2dKSQDj-Hvg8FX8JC58IqmePPilvgYnblGeqmYAS8B0RTTIHhk6TwWdEMPS-9klkh79O5Qg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0' /></div><br /></div></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476946830055521644.post-51387376447204963892011-01-14T22:48:00.000-08:002016-09-11T23:00:55.247-07:00Fake Pictures Of German Brutality In Russia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: large;"><i>The Germans acted brutally in Russia during WW2. No doubt about that. But some of the pictures of Germans shown as totally inhuman and as monsters were fakes manufactured by the Soviet propaganda machine. Given below are a few such images.</i></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC5vgqOmI/AAAAAAAAJ4M/nciascw7dBs/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-pictures.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fake doctored images German brutality russia ww2" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC5vgqOmI/AAAAAAAAJ4M/nciascw7dBs/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-pictures.jpg" title="Fake images of German brutality in Russia during WW2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The fake</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC6zJ79II/AAAAAAAAJ4Q/YiJWKcEKmTE/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC6zJ79II/AAAAAAAAJ4Q/YiJWKcEKmTE/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-001.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><b>The real picture</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC7lWdyYI/AAAAAAAAJ4U/F1S26VZf7gs/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC7lWdyYI/AAAAAAAAJ4U/F1S26VZf7gs/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-002.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>This one is a big fake. The couple seem to be Soviet actors.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC8QMWFrI/AAAAAAAAJ4Y/l4g8BsNbnOI/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="479" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC8QMWFrI/AAAAAAAAJ4Y/l4g8BsNbnOI/s640/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-003.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><i>The fake</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC-ORp0wI/AAAAAAAAJ4c/CnMk8mx46mU/s1600/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="479" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/TTFC-ORp0wI/AAAAAAAAJ4c/CnMk8mx46mU/s640/german-brutality-russia-ww2-fake-images-004.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><i>The real picture</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><br /><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">One of our readers, who preferred to remain anonymous, writes....</span></span></i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Dear Sirs,</span></i></b></div><b></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">On the page of alleged "German Brutality" the photo of Dora-Mittelbau shows 1700 bodies KILLED BY US AIR ATTACKS the day before the US troops arrived. Other photos on that page show hanged partisans they do not mention the brutality of the Partisans...how partisans captured a German Hospital and impaled all the captured nurses through their vaginas on wooden paling fences. Or the captured soldiers the Partisans put meathooks through their jaws and hanged them , alive, in a tree, or the captured German soldiers they roasted alive like pigs over a fire....How do I know ? MY FATHER was in an SS Div on that front. He also told me how, after he was captured, how the Russians filmed &amp; photographed one FAKE horror scene after the other using the German POWs as actors...they had no other choice</span></i></b></span></b></div><b><i></i></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">mit freundlichen Gruessen,</span></i></b></span></i></b></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"></span></i></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Soldat</span></i></b></span></span></i></b></div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"></span></i></b></div></div>Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901520139321323267noreply@blogger.com